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The horrific collapse of a factory in Bangladesh that killed hundreds sent American scrambling for ways to ensure this doesn’t happen again. A professor explains why boycotts are not the answer.
On the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, we asked scholars to reflect on the significance of Armenian insistence on remembering and Turkey’s insistence that the genocide never happened.
Five years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Obama administration is looking to expand offshore drilling. Is it any safer today?
How people respond to changing economic incentives appears to explain a lot of the upward trend in weight.
Astronomers from around the world identify their favourite images sent back to Earth by the Hubble Space Telescope.
Centuries before the internet, Shakespeare became a global phenomenon.
Ban on affirmative action across eight states has led to a drop in minority students at medical schools.
Investment gaps may be key to understanding why poorer children perform so much worse throughout life.
Einstein’s theory of gravity says dark energy must be out there, accelerating the expansion of our universe. But what is it and how can we try to figure out more about it?
The man who videotaped the shooting of Walter Scott is demanding compensation from media outlets replaying it. Here’s why this is a reasonable request.
The EPA and other federal agencies have yet to address environmental justice – despite a long history of poor and minority communities suffering environmental ills disproportionately.
Much is at stake as negotiators meet in New York this week in hopes of aligning disparate transatlantic regulations.
Five years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, scientists are researching how much oil dropped to sea floor, hitchhiking via ‘marine snow.’
The Hubble Space Telescope launched 25 years ago in 1990. But O'Dell started on the project in 1972, garnering support for the world’s first telescope free of Earth’s atmosphere’s blurring effects.
A lifestyle based on aggressive consumption stresses the Earth’s resources and, beyond a certain point of comfort, does not actually foster human fulfillment or happiness.
The history of Earth Day reveals its true nature: a day about people, not really a celebration of an amazing planet – like a true birthday.
Invisible under normal light but fluorescent under UV light, this ink can print out unique signatures that use ‘molecular encryption’ to authenticate anything they tag.
An elaborate and lengthy selection process is in danger of being co-opted by the Chinese government.
Ayn Rand may be long gone but her theories about selfishness live on in today’s libertarian circles and influence the political philosophies of presidential contender Rand Paul and others.
It’s not the stop for a traffic violation that riles the community; it’s the perception of unfairness or bias that sours police/citizen interactions.
Poverty, social stigma, lack of health-care infrastructure and more rural geography all play a role in lower five-year survival rates.
As the debate over standardized tests continues, a scholar questions the introduction of a new college readiness test, PARCC and gives reasons why it will be no different.
Some countries in Africa have made great strides bolstering the middle class by supporting small businesses, but more needs to be done.
The history of “cures” for homosexuality reveals how discredited conversion therapies for gay and transgender children can irreparably harm young minds.