A massive public investment program financed by the European Investment Bank will help fix the problem at the heart of the euro.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Home – Articles, Analysis, Opinion
Displaying 19301 - 19325 of 20075 articles
If the biblical flood occurred just a few thousand years ago, that doesn’t leave enough time for the geologic history we see in rocks and fossils.
Teen drug abuse is a real problem with 46% of high school students hooked on some addictive substance. Recovery high schools are offering a new model of treatment.
Officials in Indiana would have served the population better if syringe exchanges had been in place before the upsurge in HIV cases began.
Centrifuges, plutonium, uranium enrichment – what’s the nuclear science behind the deal to curb Iran’s atomic weapons program.
Jurors will likely be presented with conflicting notions of sanity and insanity. And they will be forced to confront widely held cultural assumptions about mental illness and violence.
The fashionistas aren’t flocking there yet but things are happening in Brick City – especially when it comes to education policy.
The bill in Congress represents a healthy compromise that gives the president negotiating room while offering lawmakers more say on key trade issues.
A flock of scientists turned their focus to understand the Deepwater Horizon’s impact, including one team that studied deep-sea corals.
Guns will be allowed on public universities in Texas from August 1. Given the recent incident of a student shooting the professor and then himself, reportedly over grades, are there reasons to worry?
A new exhibit at the Detroit Institute of Arts highlights a controversial mural commissioned during a period fraught with social unrest.
Ash and mudflows are the biggest dangers from the unexpected eruption from the Calbuco volcano in Chile.
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.’