A new study finds that investors punish companies for behaving badly over three times as much if they have a record of saying…
Only 218 programs offer credit-bearing college programs in prison. That’s about to change.
Many of the amino acids that make up proteins are encoded by genetic material in more than one way. An information theorist…
The bad news: This extreme heat is probably going to stick around for a couple more years.
Plea deals are common in American criminal courts. But in the federal government’s tax case against Hunter Biden, the…
Two Supreme Court rulings on the use of race appear at odds with each other. Blame Chief Justice Roberts’s ambivalence…
Practitioners of Pagan religions no longer need to go into a forest to find an object for their altars. Commercialization…
Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama is using a long-standing Senate practice to block military promotions.
The 2023 Global Education Monitoring Report proposed restrictions on the use of technology in the classroom.
Increasing the number of older people with both Medicaid and Medicare would mean fewer of them would be forced to skimp…
US cities are starting to reform laws that required developers to provide minimum amounts of parking. But there’s more…
How much does human behavior influence climate change? Can it be changed, and how? In June, climate change experts and behavioral…
Fragile X syndrome is the most common inherited form of intellectual disability. Using short bits of DNA to fix improperly…
The way particles interacted while the universe was forming seconds after the Big Bang could explain why the universe exists…
The strike would have been the first for the parcel delivery giant since 1997.
The US population is getting older, and temperatures are rising. It can be a lethal combination, as three health and climate…
As the evidence for aromatherapy trickles in, be wary of marketing ploys and possible risks posed by some of these products.
Freshwater megafish numbers have fallen by 94%, according to one study.
An engineer who managed dams for years explains the tradeoffs operators make as they decide when to release water and how…