Calling something a ‘tragedy’ serves to minimize human responsibility for its causes, which can be convenient for the…
Workers are objecting to staffing levels they say endanger patient care and are refusing their employer’s offer that includes…
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History suggests that there’s risk of overplaying one’s hand when new technology is lurking.
Funding for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children quickly halts during government shutdowns.
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With our faces seemingly everywhere − from Zoom meetings to selfies − more people are developing anxieties about how…
Using the rhetoric of the First Amendment, a string of US Supreme Court cases has allowed members of some religious groups…
Beloved in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, Jimmy Carter became the 39th US president and used his office to make human…
Some Nobel Prize-winning ideas originate in strange places, but still go on to revolutionize the scientific field. George…
A new study of Florida’s fiscal vulnerability to climate change finds that flooding directly threatens many local tax…
Low levels of literacy cost the US more than $2 trillion every year.
Quantum dots are a prime example of the way nanotechnology engineers materials at an atomic scale.
Long gridlocked by fighting between the two major political parties, the US House is now split by conflict within the GOP,…
Did the Green Revolution, which brought high-tech agriculture to developing nations in the 1960s, prevent famine? Recent…
The 2023 Nobel Prize in physics recognized researchers studying electron movement in real time − this work could revolutionize…
The design philosophy of the everything app WeChat may seem paradoxical, being simultaneously pervasive and inconspicuous.…
Your cells die to keep you alive. Cell death does everything from fighting cancer cells and pathogens to forming your fingers…
The Nobel Peace Prize has recognized some legendary leaders and peace activists, but it has a mixed track record of recognizing…