New research suggests mini-crashes, in which the price of a single stock or commodity temporarily goes haywire, may be unstoppable.
The news may have come as a surprise, but it probably shouldn't have. A bioethics expert walks through how big a deal…
The American Society of Civil Engineers gives US infrastructure a D+. What is it that we're doing wrong?
July 30 marks the United Nations’ World Day Against Trafficking in Persons. How can computer scientists help combat this…
Psalm 137 – best known for its opening line, 'By the Rivers of Babylon' – is a 2,500-year-old Hebrew psalm that…
Global travelers are being increasingly asked if they want to pay for local purchases in terms of their home country currency.…
Researchers who hold the world record for storing and retrieving data in DNA explain how the building blocks of life can…
Healthy soil teems with bacteria, fungi, viruses and other microorganisms that hep store carbon and fend off plant diseases.…
A new evolutionary perspective on what's been a medical paradox: Why does the body use inflammation to regulate aspects…
When police coax information from low-level offenders with threats of harsh sentencing, it breeds distrust in the community…
Jeff Sessions was met with considerable skepticism when he announced his desire to revive D.A.R.E. But it turns out that…
The administration's objectives for NAFTA negotiations with Canada and Mexico, set to begin in August, will do little…
Romero’s ‘Night of the Living Dead’ and ‘Dawn of the Dead’ will be remembered among the first films to use horror…
Research dollars don't stay locked up in academia and government labs. R&D collaborations with the private sector…
How might we, and our nation's roads and highways, need to change as autonomous vehicles become more ubiquitous? We…
Within the next month, the Trump administration may move to abolish or shrink up to two dozen national monuments. Our experts…
While current congressional leaders are digging in their heels along party lines, it might be good to take a step back and…
A study of the brains of 111 NFL players after their deaths showed that 110 had degenerative brain disease. Here are some…
Nearly one-fifth of US GDP is spent on health care. Where does all of that money go?
Shifting to plug-in cars wouldn't be enough to max out global oil consumption by 2040. But it could help make that happen…