In July of 1995, Chicago experienced an intense heatwave, watching temperatures climb tas high as 106 degrees Fahrenheit while feeling like124 degrees. Over the five days this extreme heat lasted, 739 people died, most of them Black, low-income, and ...
Putting on a pair of glasses should not be enough to identify a stranger, pull up their home address, and turn a chance encounter into a data profile. But in 2024, two Harvard students did exactly that. Using Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses, the facia...
Tropical forests are one of our most crucial defenses against climate change, but they are disappearing at an alarming rate. A record 6.7 million hectares of rainforest were lost in 2024, largely due to agriculture and human-caused wildfires—result...
“If the law says that any man, if he chooses, can enter a women’s restroom…and stay there, and he cannot be removed because he simply says at that moment he feels like a woman, you’re opening the door for predators.” This argument, offered ...
“If the law says that any man, if he chooses, can enter a women’s restroom…and stay there, and he cannot be removed because he simply says at that moment he feels like a woman, you’re opening the door for predators.” This argument, offered ...
Anyone who has driven through the Midwest, pumped gas into their car, or looked at the list of unpronounceable ingredients on their bag of chips likely has some sense that corn is omnipresent in America. You cannot escape it. The United States is the...
Anyone who has driven through the Midwest, pumped gas into their car, or looked at the list of unpronounceable ingredients on their bag of chips likely has some sense that corn is omnipresent in America. You cannot escape it. The United States is the...
The 14th Amendment of the Constitution declares that no state shall “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” The language is plain and simple—a conscious choice for a country still reeling from a bloody civ...
The 14th Amendment of the Constitution declares that no state shall “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” The language is plain and simple—a conscious choice for a country still reeling from a bloody civ...
Paint me a picture of anguish. Tell me a story of hurt. Make it aching… agonizing. Let it scintillate with tortured tears and sing with cries of pain. Let it reverberate in darkness and bleed through curtains of silence. Let it corrupt innocence, p...
Paint me a picture of anguish. Tell me a story of hurt. Make it aching… agonizing. Let it scintillate with tortured tears and sing with cries of pain. Let it reverberate in darkness and bleed through curtains of silence. Let it corrupt innocence, p...
Against the backdrop of a rapidly growing market for plant-based alternatives, an even bolder product has emerged: lab-grown, or cultivated, meat. Industry trailblazers like GOOD Meat are attempting to produce animal flesh through nonviolent means wi...
Against the backdrop of a rapidly growing market for plant-based alternatives, an even bolder product has emerged: lab-grown, or cultivated, meat. Industry trailblazers like GOOD Meat are attempting to produce animal flesh through nonviolent means wi...
In 2023, a New York doctor died from an allergic reaction to food served at a Disney World restaurant, despite taking every precaution to notify the waiter of her allergy. Citing the restaurant’s negligence, her widower sued Disney for wrongful dea...
In 2023, a New York doctor died from an allergic reaction to food served at a Disney World restaurant, despite taking every precaution to notify the waiter of her allergy. Citing the restaurant’s negligence, her widower sued Disney for wrongful dea...
“I knew immediately that I was in the right place. A traditional practitioner did prayers for me. They shared some songs with me. They put me in the sweat lodge and I could identify with those ceremonies. And from that day moving forward, I was abl...
“I knew immediately that I was in the right place. A traditional practitioner did prayers for me. They shared some songs with me. They put me in the sweat lodge and I could identify with those ceremonies. And from that day moving forward, I was abl...
In September 2024, Eliezer Masliah, the head of the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH’s) neuroscience division, stepped down from his post after Science found evidence of addition, deletion, and mirroring of images in 132 papers he authored be...
In September 2024, Eliezer Masliah, the head of the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH’s) neuroscience division, stepped down from his post after Science found evidence of addition, deletion, and mirroring of images in 132 papers he authored be...
On July 7, 2021, 48 environmental and progressive advocacy groups released an open letter that “[called] on the Biden administration and all members of Congress to eschew the dominant antagonistic approach to US-China relations” in favor of “mu...
On July 7, 2021, 48 environmental and progressive advocacy groups released an open letter that “[called] on the Biden administration and all members of Congress to eschew the dominant antagonistic approach to US-China relations” in favor of “mu...
The United States faces an unexpected threat to its national security: obesity. Seventy-seven percent of young Americans today are ineligible to serve in the military, with obesity as the single leading disqualifier. With the national adult obesity r...
The United States faces an unexpected threat to its national security: obesity. Seventy-seven percent of young Americans today are ineligible to serve in the military, with obesity as the single leading disqualifier. With the national adult obesity r...
The year is 1979. A young senator from Delaware walks into the Kremlin to discuss nuclear arms control amid the Cold War. He would go on to be an outspoken advocate for nuclear nonproliferation and arms control for most of his long career. Fast forwa...
The year is 1979. A young senator from Delaware walks into the Kremlin to discuss nuclear arms control amid the Cold War. He would go on to be an outspoken advocate for nuclear nonproliferation and arms control for most of his long career. Fast forwa...
In early 2023, Iowa’s Department of Criminal Investigation (DCI) conducted an elaborate sting operation targeting illicit gambling at Iowa State University. The DCI employed GeoComply’s “geofencing” technology, which surveilled all web traffi...
In early 2023, Iowa’s Department of Criminal Investigation (DCI) conducted an elaborate sting operation targeting illicit gambling at Iowa State University. The DCI employed GeoComply’s “geofencing” technology, which surveilled all web traffi...