It may become impossible for the hundreds of members of Congress to meet in person. One legal scholar says the language…
A commission looking at the future of service is set to makesits recommendations. It is hoping to make a year of service…
Without government intervention, three experts warn, HBCUs will have a difficult time bouncing back from the effects of…
Plaintiffs in age discrimination cases often find it difficult to prove their cases. Now, a Supreme Court case could further…
Countries have tried a variety of approaches to contain the spread of COVID-19 – except a coordinated one.
The value that bats provide to humans by pollinating crops and eating insects is far greater than harm from virus transmission…
You won't see a blue shark near the beach, but thanks to 50 years of tagging data, scientists are learning about their…
Today is World TB Day. With attention turned toward coronavirus, it might seem too much to think about. But there's…
In view of the rapid spread of the coronavirus, faith communities are changing many traditional practices. An historian…
An emergency and critical care physician gives a dispatch from the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic.
As long as teachers are creative and resourceful, kids will keep learning. What's less clear is how schools will make…
Census data are used to determine federal funding on everything from highway construction to poverty services. With many…
Universities and colleges around the world are closing. People are fleeing from cities. Some people are being forced to…
Before schools and workplaces closed, people could have been exposed. How do we best manage that?
In past recessions, donors have tightened their pursestrings even as the need has grown. But two scholars explain why, at…
Today's coronavirus pandemic has echoes in the yellow fever pandemic of the 1790s. Then, as now, workers struggled with…
The Greeks treated their city-states like bodies. To protect them from disasters, it was the poor that were often sacrificed.
Researchers are turning microbes into microscopic construction crews by altering their DNA to make them produce building…
Los niños no parecen enfermar de manera severa con el coronavirus. ¿Entonces por qué se cierran tantas escuelas?
As a public health measure, cities and states around the country have ordered restaurants to close or to switch to pickup…