A professor of social work who grew up in foster care shines light on programs meant to help former foster youth make it…
Where do plague bacteria go between outbreaks? New research demonstrates that they can survive and replicate inside amoebae…
South Korea's lofty vision of transforming the region into a winter sports hub may be pipe dream.
The group, founded in 1871, didn’t try to smother virtually all gun control efforts until the mid-1970s.
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Domestic violence services have rightly focused most attention on meeting survivors' needs. Increasingly, though, organizations…
Investor Bill Miller's $75 million gift to the Johns Hopkins philosophy department clashes with conventional wisdom…
Research has resulted in advances in treating breast cancer in recent decades, but a wide gap exists in mortality rates…
Twenty years ago, a Texas court decided Winfrey hadn't defamed the state's cattle industry. At the time, local media…
A scholar explains why there is no one answer. Some pain is devastating, and sometimes such pain responds well to opioids.…
Years after their trials, he got in touch with the victims he thought he had helped. They described feeling ‘dumped’…
Feb. 28 marks the 75th anniversary of Operation Gunnerside. A stealthy group of skiing commandos took out a crucial Nazi…
A scholar documented the risks a migrant faced after deportation, including his becoming involved in smuggling people across…
Exactly 234,966 people have died in Mexico's 11-year drug war. Now the government wants to deploy soldiers to criminal…
There's a common, popular and well-studied method to ensure new technologies are safe and effective for public use –…
Pharmaceutical companies focus on small molecules they've devised – and can easily patent. But nature's already…
The Trump administration's push for 'energy dominance' could spur a new wave of domestic uranium production.…
Despite good intentions, efforts to hold colleges and universities accountable often miss the mark. The reasons why range…
The Department of Justice wants to add a citizenship question to the next census. That could mess up the Census Bureau's…
After Columbine, teens weren't taking to the streets to call for more gun regulations. So what's changed?