The potential health benefits of energy-burning brown and beige fat might be not the effect on weight, but rather on blood sugar and cholesterol.
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With the public’s confidence in the news media wavering, it’s a tough line to toe.
There’s a lot of focus on the physical and financial woes of former athletes. But players must also grapple with losing a core part of their identity.
The Paris climate summit yielded a pact to reduce air pollutants that contribute to global warming but missed a chance to address the interlinked effects of agriculture and climate.
Who is most fit to serve as America’s commander-in-chief? Our scholars watched the latest GOP debate to decide.
Research universities and nongovernmental organizations have an important role to play in helping countries reach their goals.
The movie ‘Spotlight’ might depict heroic journalists in action, but increasingly, the public views reporters with suspicion – primed by the often harsh portrayal of the press in popular culture.
The US risks being left out of Cuba’s transformation if it doesn’t act quickly.
Scientists need to be comfortable dealing with subjective views, rather than empirical data, and people’s feelings to make progress in addressing climate change.
It might be that teaching people to reframe their thoughts about winter can help them overcome seasonal affective disorder year after year.
Many schools claim that when students attend in uniforms, it improves discipline, and leads to academic gains. But does it?
When a pregnant celebrity announces “no hot nannies,” what does it say about parenting, gender roles and our culture?
Could future presidents unravel the commitments to cut emissions the US has made at the Paris climate summit?
The Paris climate summit was historic as a political achievement but it’s not clear how and when the hard problems of emission cuts and climate finance get tackled.
Thanks to a funding ban passed two years ago, the CDC and other federal groups that study health have been avoiding gun violence research.
The limits of fertility and an elongated academic career path are currently at odds. If the choice to bear children contributes to the ‘leaky pipeline’ of women in STEM, what can be done?
An expert on American political rhetoric breaks down Donald Trump’s rhetorical prowess, pointing to the various techniques the candidate has mastered.
Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) is replacing No Child Left Behind (NCLB). How much of an improvement is it over the earlier law?
The root cause of our vulnerability is the structure of the global economy: highly interconnected, complex and filled with turbulence.
Thomas Jefferson would disagree with Trump’s call to bar one religious group from entering the country. But that’s not to say that Trump’s idea isn’t anything new in American history.
In his roles, Frank Sinatra often embodied the outsider, the man excluded from America’s suburban success story.
Scholars argue that the affirmative action case could have consequences for the educational success of students of color.
Jupiter had a big influence on how our solar system’s planets formed. New research – led by a high school student – tried to nail down how rare Jupiter analogs really are in other planetary systems.
Developing countries need technical and financial aid to begin the transition to low-carbon energy now, not just pledges to invest in energy R&D with payoffs decades from now.
America’s gun violence problem actually is producing policy reform. It’s just that most of this activity is happening on the state level and has received little attention in the national media.