After years of anecdotes, data provides a fuller picture of government agencies hiding their work from the public they ostensibly…
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Salt is an essential nutrient that has helped civilizations flavor and preserve their foods for millennia. Too much dietary…
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Students are provided the opportunity to use America’s national parks as case studies for environmental issues and tough…
Israel has made it clear that Hamas should have no role in Gaza after the war. But seeking an alternative in the Palestinian…
Recent laws and pro-Putin sentiment by Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov have sparked concern that the Central Asian country…
Vaccine skepticism, and the broader medical mistrust and far-reaching anxieties it reflects, is not just a fringe position…
A gloomier economic outlook in China and tightening state control have combined with the influence of social media in encouraging…
End-to-end encryption provides strong protection for keeping your communications private, but not every messaging app uses…
Trees – and all plants – harvest sunlight to gain the energy they need to live and grow.
Assessing a patient’s autonomy can be more difficult when mental illness is the main source of their suffering.
Ramadan encourages acts of charity. This also poses a question for many Muslims as they consider what more could be done…
Fighting for voter access is an inevitable part of any democracy, from ancient Rome to the US today. Roman legislators were…
I’m a scholar, not an activist or an advocate. But now one of the most intimate, personal events of our lives had been…