18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic – a retrospective in 7 charts
A lot has happened since the WHO declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic. A portrait in data highlights trends in everything…
A lot has happened since the WHO declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic. A portrait in data highlights trends in everything…
When the coronavirus copies itself, there is a chance its RNA will mutate. But new variants must jump from one host to another,…
The Taliban have at least five significant potential sources of revenue as they begin to govern Afghanistan again.
In the male-dominated engineering industry, where women represent only about 11% of the workforce, gender influences whom…
A scholar of nutrition opens up with a personal take on food insecurity in America.
Concern about Islamophobia has been near-constant for years. But how it plays out is changing – especially online.
Scientists and local communities can work together to design interactive play spaces that build math and literacy skills.
The Attica uprising marked a milestone in the prisoners’ rights movement. Many of the grievances aired in 1971 are still…
Aumenta la evidencia de que, a medida que el clima se calienta, la cantidad de precipitación de las fuertes tormentas está…
While the food insecurity rate held steady in 2020, the racial hunger gap increased.
Maine and Oregon have enacted laws that require makers of consumer product packaging to pay for recycling or disposing of…
Like many social movements before it that began at the grassroots, Black Lives Matter is becoming a more conventional organization…
The 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks is an opportunity for teachers to focus less on recreating the day and more…
Undergraduate programs are springing up across the US to meet the burgeoning demand for workers trained in big data. Yet…
Global spending on product placements is expected to top $23 billion in 2021, about a 14% increase over the previous year.
Ancient Christian and Jewish texts threatened women with hellfire if they stepped out of line – and those terrifying visions…