Most people credit policing or the lack of it, but the real story tracks three trends that rose and fell together.
Jackson’s concurrence traces the 14th Amendment to work done by people ‘beyond Congress’ and Black Americans who ‘helped…
Despite holding a low opinion of the US president and his negotiators, most Ukrainians have favorable views toward Americans…
Colorado watered down its AI legislation but may still face litigation from the Department of Justice.
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Thirty years after first visiting Havana, an expert in US-Cuba relations reports on his latest visit.
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What do cacti spines and wasp stingers have in common? What about snail genitalia and shark teeth?
The goal of creating synthetic cells is not to replace nature, but to learn more deeply about biology and reengineer it…
By interfering with how communities collect data and how researchers access it, the CDC risks undermining the hard-won trust…
Florida’s population boom has fizzled to just 0.9% growth as domestic migration slows to a trickle.
Paintings of early Christian saints were designed to show worshippers what sacred authority looked like, using books, clothing…
A look at cats’ diets as reported by researchers over many years shows they eat a lot more than people might think.
Rather than chasing dollars, gig workers are micro-entrepreneurs who perform a strict ‘mental audit’ of every single…
Science works at a much slower pace than social media, opening a large window for early findings to be taken at face value…
Too much fertilizer disrupts the hidden world of soil-dwelling microbes that were sustaining healthy crops long before synthetic…
When companies are hit by activists, managers of competitors may fear that their company’s reputation would suffer if…
As schools focus more on evidence-based reading instruction, less time is available for children to practice reading for…