These coordinated movements of a flock of starlings follow no plan or leader. Scientists used to think the animals must…
Two sleep doctors offer some survival tips to help you adjust to losing that hour of sleep as clocks spring forward into…
A sports economist explains how the deal leaves players with a fundamentally different – and in many ways, worse – arrangement…
The Irish government recently declared a national holiday for St. Brigid. A medieval historian explains her fascinating…
In the short term, the war is causing energy prices to soar and prompting fears of famine in some countries. In the long…
Price shocks are a feature of the global oil market, not a bug – and even when governments take many steps to grow supply…
A leader’s machismo can lead to war, and Russian President Vladimir Putin has long displayed his version of hyper-masculinity.…
Tens of thousands of Ukrainians are using humanitarian corridors to leave the country. But these routes are often announced…
Albert Alexander was the first known person treated with penicillin. While his ultimately fatal case is well known in medical…
Recent successes putting genetically modified pig organs into people have brought xenotransplantation back into the spotlight.
Despite signals of increased turnover, the past two years have not experienced mass departures from the teaching profession.
Accurately calculating a ship’s position by hand in 1915 was easy compared to what the New Zealand-born navigator Frank…
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and resulting sanctions are causing oil prices to spike, which is putting more pressure on…
Hurricane Michael left a jumbled mess of downed trees. Cleaning it up is even harder than it sounds, and now dead trees…
The Jewish holiday of Purim, being celebrated on March 17 this year, has an interesting tradition of satirizing life in…
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Vladimir Putin’s nuclear threats have the world on edge, but so far, long-standing…
Beijing and Moscow have had a cozy relationship of late. A scholar of China-Russia diplomacy explains how Ukraine might…
The Ukrainian crisis is probably the biggest crowdsourced humanitarian aid operation ever undertaken.