The US Army tried portable nuclear power at remote bases 60 years ago – it didn't go well
Nearly 60 years after a radiation-leaking reactor was removed from a US Army base on the Greenland ice sheet, the military…
Nearly 60 years after a radiation-leaking reactor was removed from a US Army base on the Greenland ice sheet, the military…
Proposals for new oil and gas pipelines can generate intense debate today, but during World War II the US built an oil pipeline…
A task force of polling experts found surveys notably understated support for Donald Trump, both nationally and at the state…
America's public sphere is broken because propaganda has replaced political communication. How did we all become propagandists?
Data science infrastructure is sorely needed in many places. Doctors Without Borders brings medical help to nations in need,…
Thanks to shifting tastes and improvements to the brewing process, more craft brewers are offering low-alcohol and nonalcoholic…
During a 2015 heat wave, scientists watched as a coral reef died before their eyes. By the end of the century, almost all…
A new study found that sales went down when salespeople conveyed emotion during their pitch – including expressions of…
In principle, some portion of the shoreline is public land along virtually all US coasts. But these can sometimes overlap…
The case of Britney Spears, who is trying to end her father's conservatorship, illustrates why the legal arrangement…
Chaucer’s career as a secret agent helped him assume different disguises in his writing. Some scholars interpret this…
Ongoing tracking is meant to spot very rare risks – like the connection between the Johnson & Johnson shot and Guillain-Barré…
The political alliance between American evangelicals and Israel's right wing may have peaked during the Trump administration.
It isn't just the effects of climate change that could destabilize the financial system, it's also fossil fuel assets…
The sketchy history of international efforts to control bioweapons suggests that nations will resist cooperative monitoring…
Billions of galaxies are in the universe, with billions of stars in every galaxy. Could billions of planets be out there…
As many teens and adults in the US restart their social lives, parents of children under the age of 12 wonder when their…
While the COVID-19 pandemic raged on, the opioid epidemic got worse as drug overdose deaths soared. New research proposes…