Venezuela's most famous political prisoner, freed from house arrest by soldiers who turned against President Maduro,…
Research from around the world shows that boosting teacher pay can lead to better student learning, but only if it's…
The holiday honors a 19th-century battle between the French and the Mexican armies that, strangely enough, may have influenced…
More likely dangers include administrative hassles and fines.
Platelets heal wounds. But they also seem to play a paradoxical role in both promoting and inhibiting the growth of solid…
Many immigrants come to the United States chasing the 'American dream.' So do immigrant racehorses, who literally…
The Dutch holiday on May 4 that commemorates the country's dead from World War II and after reveals how Dutch policy…
The electric utility is seeing rapid changes and threats that affect consumers, from more wind and solar to wildfires. How…
The Trump administration plan to expand offshore oil and gas production along US coastlines faces serious roadblocks. But…
Commercial and recreational drones are taking to the air. They're very noisy, and neighborhoods everywhere could become…
Former President Jimmy Carter's foreign policy efforts may have been far more effective than critics have claimed.
Hidden forces are always at work in the world, and people always want to control them, a cognitive anthropologist explains.…
Amid all the Mueller report uncertainty, one thing is clear: Donald Trump did some wildly improper things to win the presidency.…
Air quality in the US has improved greatly since 1990, but a new report finds progress stalling in some cities. Meanwhile,…
Measles cases in the US have reached their highest in 25 years. A bioethicist argues why parents opposed to vaccination…
The April 30 shooting at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte isn't an outlier. Research shows it fits a familiar…
Just as America's highways, sewage systems and water pipes need fixing, so does the growing gap between rich and poor.…
The source of water on Earth, the moon and planets in our solar system is hotly debated. Some in the planetary science community…
The US indicted WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange for conspiring to hack into a government computer. But the prosecution…