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Amid persistent calls from the United States and other countries that Israel needs to make it easier for life-saving aid to reach Palestinians in...
Between the villages of Vierville-sur-Mer and Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes in Normandy, France, is a 5-mile stretch of beach that was once called Côte...
Colorado has highly pathogenic avian influenza – also known as HPAI or bird flu – on a dairy farm, the ninth state with confirmed cases. The...
When we think about harm, we typically think of physical or psychological suffering. But ethicists point out that we can also suffer “moral...
While on the road, you’re probably thinking more about your destination than the pavement you’re driving over. But building roads requires a host...
Algorithms are a staple of modern life. People rely on algorithmic recommendations to wade through deep catalogs and find the best movies, routes,...
How did your heart form? What triggered your first heartbeat? To this day, the mechanisms of human heart development remain elusive. Researchers...
Sports betting is having a big moment across the United States. While gambling on sports has been legal for decades in countries such as the U.K.,...
Philly icon and former Eagles star Jason Kelce has continued to make headlines since he announced his retirement from the NFL on March 4, 2024. A...
“Sudan’s moment has come; chaos is our chance to sow the seeds of jihad,” warned Abu Hudhaifa al-Sudani, a high-ranking al-Qaida leader, in an...
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency announced in late April 2024 that it plans to ease federal restrictions on cannabis, reclassifying it from a...
Every so often, a cause ignites a sustained fury on college campuses across the nation. In 2020, it was Black Lives Matter. In 2011, it was Occupy...
Across much of the United States, spring is in full force. With warmer weather, people are taking their furry family members out on longer walks...
America’s first large-scale offshore wind farms began sending power to the Northeast in early 2024, but a wave of wind farm project cancellations...
What would you do if you had to vote in Congress on a crucial national security program, when you also knew that the FBI had systematically ignored...
One of the big contributors to the record-breaking global temperatures over the past year – El Niño – is nearly gone, and its opposite, La Niña,...
The sharp increase in political polarization in America over the past 50 years has been driven in part by how different generations think about...
Parenting makes the heart grow fonder, and the brain grow … smaller? Several studies have revealed that the brain loses volume across the...
Following the wave of protests over the war in the Gaza Strip, several U.S. universities have decided to cancel or ramp down commencement...
For the past 25 years, my research as a cultural anthropologist has taken me into the homes and neighborhoods of people living in poverty in cities...
Commentators link America’s declining birth rate to a number of factors: a lack of support for mothers in the workplace, expensive child care,...
Across much of the United States, spring is in full force. With warmer weather, people are taking their furry family members out on longer walks...
America’s first large-scale offshore wind farms began sending power to the Northeast in early 2024, but a wave of wind farm project cancellations...
John E. Jones III is the president of Dickinson College and a retired federal judge appointed by President George W. Bush. David E. Clementson is a...
Campus protests expressing solidarity with the Palestinian people and objecting to Israel’s military campaign in Gaza include many calls for...
Florida updated its school safety dashboard in April 2024, and it is now one of the most comprehensive in the nation. F. Chris Curran is an...
When the Arizona Supreme Court ruled on April 9, 2024, that the state’s Civil War-era law banning nearly all abortions was enforceable, it...
It almost sounds like a bad joke: What did the 78-year-old male senator say to the 69-year-old female justice? “RETIRE!” That’s effectively...
Board games are booming: In 2023 alone, the industry topped US$16.8 billion and is projected to reach $40.1 billion by 2032. Classics like...
By the end of winter 2024, the return of Donald Trump to the top of the GOP presidential ticket has revealed a surprising trend in the former...
Are drone strikes legitimate, meaning on sound moral and legal footing? How people perceive the legitimacy of U.S. drone strikes – firing...
Think about taking a walk: where you need to go, how fast you need to move to get there, and whether you need to bring something along to carry the...
Located 163 light-years from Earth, a Jupiter-sized exoplanet named WASP-69b offers astrophysicists a window into the dynamic processes that shape...
Between Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio, drivers pass a billboard on Interstate 71 that has achieved some internet fame. Since 2004, a black sign has...
Wild chimpanzees have been studied for more than 60 years, but they continue to delight and surprise observers, as we found during the summer of...
In 1915, Norwegian artist Emanuel Vigeland, one of the most respected Scandinavian artists of his time, created an image of Christ with golden hair...
Conspiracy theories are everywhere, and they can involve just about anything. People believe false conspiracy theories for a wide range of reasons...
For the 2022 midterm elections, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed Alabama to use congressional districts that violated the law and diluted the voting...
Many medical organizations have been recommending lung cancer screening for decades for those at high risk of developing the disease. But in 2022,...
Homeschooling is the fastest-growing education setting in the United States. More than 3 million students were educated at home in the 2021-22...
The last pandemic was bad, but COVID-19 is only one of many infectious diseases that emerged since the turn of this century. Since 2000, the world...
Workers at two Mercedes plants near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, will soon vote for the first time on whether they want to join a union. Until recently, it...
Israel entered Rafah, a city that marks Gaza’s southern border crossing with Egypt, on May 7, 2024, launching a military offensive that the U.S....
“When it rains, it pours” once was a metaphor for bad things happening in clusters. Now it’s becoming a statement of fact about rainfall in a...
U.S. Marines joined Filipino counterparts on May 5, 2024, for a mock battle at a telling location: a small, remote territory just 100 miles off the...
The number of individuals in the United States who do not identify as being part of any religion has grown dramatically in recent years, and “the...
Paid caregivers foster independence and improve quality of life for people with all kinds of disabilities, many of whom need help getting dressed,...
While campaigning in Iowa last September, former President Donald Trump made a promise to voters if he were elected again: “Following the...
Collectors relish so-called “hidden mother photographs” as historical oddities. These 19th-century images contain very young children held still...
The passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act in 2015 eliminated the federal requirement that teachers be highly qualified to teach. This...
Signs written in Spanish are becoming less common along North Philadelphia’s Golden Block, or El Bloque de Oro – which runs along North Fifth...
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to...
If you live in one of the most economically deprived neighborhoods in your city, you might think the government is directing a smaller share of...
It’s become common to read that microplastics – little bits of plastic, smaller than a pencil eraser – are turning up everywhere and in...
Scenes from the Houston area looked like the aftermath of a hurricane in early May after a series of powerful storms flooded highways and...
Today, the atmosphere of our neighbor planet Venus is as hot as a pizza oven and drier than the driest desert on Earth – but it wasn’t always that...
Scenes from the Houston area looked like the aftermath of a hurricane in early May after a series of powerful storms flooded highways and...
Words fail as 2,000-pound bombs shred lives and limbs. The sheer number of children killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza is devastating – at least...