The World Health Organization has said the coronavirus is not yet a pandemic. That raises a question: just what is a pandemic?…
Viruses are small enough to pass through filters, including face masks. Disabling viruses with electrically charged gases…
The conflict between Iran and the US has gone on for decades. A scholar of social movements in Iran asks why the US has…
Epidemiologists want to quickly identify any emerging disease's potential to spread far and wide. Dependent on a number…
With electronic voting and vote-counting machines susceptible to hacking, paper ballots ensure recounts are possible –…
Around the world, elections are under attack. U.S. officials could learn from other countries about how to ensure everyone's…
Diversity among officers lags behind the general population. But is police culture a greater problem when it comes to combating…
Simulating some experiences of immigrant life can help nonimmigrants learn to understand, and even trust, people from other…
The Pentagon has spent more than $800 billion on military operations in Iraq. But that doesn't include money needed…
It helps when school leaders are open about their financial struggles before it's too late to forge a good plan.
Cancer mortality has dropped in the US, due largely to lower smoking rates, as well as early detection and better treatments.…
Some of the world's worst diseases have come from animals. Bats, cows, camels and horses have all contributed. Now,…
The results of the 1920 census kicked off a bitter, decadelong political squabble. Could the same happen again in 2020?
Americans tend to work even when they're sick, in part because of a lack of paid sick leave.
Authors sometimes put deeper meanings into their stories, but really, it's the reader who decides.
Children think about politics. And based on surveys from 1950 to today, it seems children hold far less favorable views…
A researcher who fled crime-beset Mexico returns to interview the drug cartels behind so much of the violence, asking 33…
Early Christians were urged to 'supervise' one another. In the present times, that theology is often used by the…
Even before people understood how germs spread disease, they tried to isolate the sick to keep them from infecting others.
The Trump administration has cut funding for infectious disease research and reduced high-level staffing for global health…