When pop star Katy Perry and five other women made a much-publicized trip to the edge of space earlier this year, they faced sharp criticism across both social and traditional media, with skeptics questioning multiple aspects ...
South African primary schools are facing a crisis. Every day, learners fight, bully, destroy property, and intimidate other learners and teachers, turning what should be safe spaces into places of fear and mistrust.
In 2001, social theorist bell hooks warned about the dangers of a loveless zeitgeist. In "All About Love: New Visions," she lamented "the lack of an ongoing public discussion … about the practice of love in our culture ...
Climate change is coming… but what on Earth can we do about it? Scientist Dr. Kimberley Miner has written a guide to riding out the oncoming almighty storm.
In an ideal world, every piece of food we eat would be free of pathogens at all times. In the real world, though, where 600 million people contract a foodborne illness every year, this just isn't the case. In fact, it's impossible—microbes ...
For nearly a month, hundreds of thousands of Iowans have not been allowed to water their lawns—even though there's no drought.
The gray seals slide out of their cages into the Baltic Sea near the Lithuanian coast, swimming off to new lives imperiled by climate change, pollution and shrinking fish stocks.
In a world of hybrid working and four-day weeks, most workers are asked to be agile, creative and strategic—not just at work but also at home. But what if the energy and focus workers invest into solving family life challenges ...
Catastrophic floods can be difficult to prepare for. Sometimes evacuation is the right call, but if it's too late the best bet is to find higher ground nearby. The stakes can be high, because a flash flood may give those ...
Many systems obey simple, linear rules: If you pull twice as hard on a spring, it stretches twice as far. However, when we introduce very large forces or complicated interactions, that linear rule breaks down into a "nonlinear" ...
