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The US central bank is aiming for its soft landing that avoids recession, but the data and competing policy choices will…
Anti-vaccine activists are using the side effect reporting system to spread fear and misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines.…
Donald Trump and top administration officials confidently assert that left-wing political violence is a huge problem in…
Security crackdowns may miss the root cause of radicalization.
A federal judge found a Florida law censoring school library books violates students’ First Amendment rights.
Long stereotyped as food for the poor, the local delicacy’s gastronomical stature has grown as foodies flock to Oaxaca,…
Post 9/11, brown and sometimes Black Muslim characters were portrayed as ‘good’ only when aligned with US state power.…
A planetary scientist walks through the sensors and systems that went into the recent detection of potential biosignatures.
As it does with other pathogens, your immune system sees drugs as foreign invaders to be expelled from your body. But exploiting…
The First Amendment is not just about the right to speak without fear of jail. It’s also about ensuring that government…
Even fossil fuel companies have found that clean energy can reduce costs.
Public health calls many deaths ‘preventable,’ but that term can mask how policy, access and geography shape who gets…
Human society has marked collective dead for millennia. Such monuments have changed with the evolving nature of conflict,…
The Federal Reserve is expected to cut interest rates by a quarter-point during its September meeting.
In 2024, seven times more Americans were struck by lightning than were convicted of federal mortgage fraud.
Two sociologists found that when the pace at which family sizes was shrinking slowed down, starting in the 1990s, progress…
Learning is understanding, requires challenge and takes time, a science education scholar explains.