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Talk about the future of work is in the air these days, but will all the chatter lead to action and better living standards for tomorrow’s workers?
The US-China relationship is crucial to any global deal on climate change. How strong is their common commitment to working on climate change, and can it last?
In a country known for its eccentric tastes, is this simply another flash-in-the-pan fad?
The first digits of numbers in a data set aren’t distributed equally. And now you know more than a lot of fraudsters do – and should – when they’re making up their phony numbers.
New draft guidelines for using aspirin to prevent heart attacks have created confusion about who, exactly, should actually take it.
As the affirmative action case comes up before the US Supreme Court again, the question being asked is how much diversity is enough?
Finding solutions for what happened in San Bernardino is a challenge, but ensuring gunmakers behave responsibly should be one piece of the puzzle.
Donald Trump is Protestant, Bernie Sanders is Jewish and Ted Cruz is a Southern Baptist. But do such religious affiliations mean anything?
How to ensure rich countries will live up to their promises of money and carbon emissions cuts? Developing countries need to look to the Allies’ unified strategy in World War II.
Limiting the use of race in higher education admissions policies for institutions can have harmful consequences for the diversity of the student body.
Scientists often prioritize deep goals over broad ones. But today’s “wicked” problems demand an interdisciplinary approach. A new study shows how they can tweak work styles to alter their deep/broad ratio.
A narrow debate of what countries should pay to respond to climate change obscures a bigger moral discussion that touches on economics, ethics and people’s relationship to the natural world.
The most-tweeted live television event was a hit with black audiences, who also noticed a shift in the ads that aired.
Research on background checks for gun purchases suggests there is an increase in gun acquisition a few months after a mass shooting happens.
Congress tasked the SEC with reducing violence in Congo through Dodd-Frank’s conflict minerals provision. A laudable goal, but the SEC can’t achieve it.
The International Summit on Human Gene Editing drew a distinction between editing an individual’s body cells and editing germline cells that would pass changes to future generations. Does that make sense?
Obama addressed the nation from the Oval Office Sunday night, attempting to steady fears after a terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California.
An analysis of social media shows climate activists have seized on the Paris climate talks to spread the word, but dialogue with oil and gas industry is absent.
Why is there always a man behind the trigger? And why is it almost always a young man?
It is probably not a surprise that a terror attack can have a major impact on people’s mental health. But what sort of effects are common, and how long do they last?
Could the not-too-distant future hold “brain chip” technologies that we could all use to enhance our memories to the point of perfection? Not so fast: there are big benefits to forgetting.
Why do critiques focus on the flaws of the protesters, rather than the flawed institutions that sparked the protests in the first place?
Blocking the sun by injecting tiny particles in the atmosphere – called solar geoengineering – can lower the Earth’s temperature but has some real costs. Economists run the numbers.
Research shows that preschool children take characters from popular television shows and movies and blend them together to create complex oral stories.