Pollution is killing people in the developing world at an alarming rate. While there are many reasons for this, one looms…
Death is inevitable for individuals and also for species. With help from the fossil record, paleontologists are piecing…
The Trump administration wants to step up logging, saying it will benefit wildlife by reducing forest fire risks. But wildfires…
It’s very difficult to measure whether a conception was intended. But those data are vital to understanding women's…
Students with larger and stronger networks faculty and peer mentors tend to find college more rewarding, a new Elon University…
Researchers analyzed troves of messages sent between matches and found that the fibs people tell are usually rational ones…
Colombia's coffee industry is at risk due to unpredictable seasons, floods, landslides, droughts and pests. Farmers…
Incineration of household waste has gotten a bad name, argues an economist, who sees today's recycling crisis as an…
Cheap Venezuelan oil boosted Nicaragua's economy and funded President Daniel Ortega's many anti-poverty programs.…
Academic research brings people close together as they collaborate on shared goals and projects that often last decades.…
Five years after the first chemical weapons attacks in Syria that killed more than 1,400 people, a team at MSU may have…
The Swift Observatory passed a milestone: 1 million snapshots of the universe. These exquisite and revealing pictures have…
In the wake of new revelations about clergy sex abuse and cover-up in Pennsylvania, civil lawsuits brought by abuse victims…
A standard element of international humanitarian law since 1899 should guide countries as they consider banning lethal autonomous…
US sanctions announced earlier this month may have triggered the plunge in the lira, but the government has been mismanaging…
In 1980, 60 percent of 12th graders said they read a book, newspaper or magazine every day for pleasure. By 2016, only 16…
In the information age, advertising is no longer needed to inform consumers.That means its primary role is to manipulate.
Donations from the Donald J. Trump Foundation to Charities Hosting Events at Mar-a-Lago violate the spirit but not the letter…
Human trafficking victims can be hidden in plain sight, as one hospital found. That can lead health professionals and the…