Train derailments get more headlines, but truck crashes involving hazardous chemicals are more frequ
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is looking into new rules for trains. Trucks, however, are involved in thousands…
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is looking into new rules for trains. Trucks, however, are involved in thousands…
Russia has vast natural resources and is involved in many conservation efforts. Its diplomatic isolation as a result of…
The technology exists to build autonomous weapons. How well they would work and whether they could be adequately controlled…
Major League Soccer – which starts the 2023 season on Feb. 25 – is deemed the most diverse league in the US. Its predecessor,…
A scholar who examines the impact of property ownership explains why purchasing a home comes with many moral obligations.
People don’t all age at the same rate. Untangling the factors that influence health and disease – such as epigenetics,…
On Presidents Day, a women in politics scholar examines the meaning, and sometimes outsized focus, on first ladies’ fashion…
Black, Latino, Asian and Indigenous teens have different online experiences – both positive and negative – than their…
The pandemic put a spotlight on inequalities among college students. But students’ resources were unequal all along.
Fossil evidence of how the earliest life on Earth came to be is hard to come by. But scientists have come up with a few…
Historians change their views of presidents over time, often because of the country’s changing views on race and moral…
Disaster-hit Turkey is due to stage a presidential vote in June. Erdoğan’s handling of the earthquake response – and…
Americans are not the first to fret over the potential harm that parties can inflict. But parties can also promote the common…
A year into the war in Ukraine, a historian reflects on how it has affected the geopolitical environment.
Employers navigating employees’ requests for religious accommodations face some confusing guidance. A new Supreme Court…