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Memories are dynamic, not fixed. Even if what you’re remembering about your own experience isn’t quite how it all happened, those memories serve...
Bribery involves offering money to a particular person, but Trump did not make his $5,000 offer to any single voter or set of voters.
Inflexible meeting times, transportation and childcare challenges can limit parents or caregivers from getting involved in their children’s education.
While small in scale, these groups are well positioned to respond quickly to disaster relief efforts.
A report that one of Trump’s aides went a year without routine vetting raises a question a former CIA executive knows well: What is that process for?
Japan is one of the countries most affected by restrictions placed on one of the world’s most important choke points.
The settlement calls for changes to Meta’s platforms but does not change the company’s surveillance-based business model
A proposed Trump administration rule aimed at quashing diversity efforts could jeopardize the nonprofit status of private schools. It could take...
The English Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 wasn’t an isolated outburst. Across medieval Europe, ordinary people challenged the authority of rulers who...
When state health departments, federal health agencies and medical societies diverge, how is an ordinary person supposed to know whom to trust?
A century ago, Americans barely ate soy. Now it’s everywhere in people’s diets, even in places they don’t look or expect.
Desde traumas psicológicos graves hasta la exposición a polvo neurotóxico, los socorristas de la Zona Cero siguen enfrentando riesgos importantes...
A CIA veteran explains that a polygraph campaign is not likely to eliminate leaks, but it may divert investigative energy from essential security...
A new study connects early winter heat high up on the plateau to the jet stream and, ultimately, storms headed for the US coast. The results could...
El Niño can affect agriculture, marine life and economies in profound ways, including slowing commerce at the Panama Canal. This El Niño is likely...
Calls to reduce the use of antidepressants highlight valid issues with long-term use and withdrawal, but blanket efforts to discourage their use...
More and more travelers want the freedom of going it alone, but with connections and activities with other people.
More than 15,000 families in Michigan have received cash support from Rx Kids. Participants say the program helps them pay bills and maintain their...
Bacteria use strategies similar to artificial neural networks to use the past to adapt to the future.
Having a vivid, detailed memory of a remarkable event like 9/11 can seem like a demonstration of patriotism and a connection with other Americans.
An educated citizenry is the key to making self-government succeed, Founding Father Thomas Jefferson said.
What gardeners do at the end of the growing season will determine how clean, productive and manageable their garden beds will be when spring arrives.
Many levees built in the mid-1900s do not offer enough protection for today’s storms, and small rural communities in particular struggle to afford...
TikTok’s lawsuit fits a pattern – from cigarettes to opioids – of courts stepping in where lawmakers won’t.
A massive solar flare could seriously disrupt life on Earth – but new NASA missions and others in development will help monitor the Sun.
Making broadband affordable and training people how to best use it are also key to saving time.
A person with Tourette syndrome who holds back their tics may look fine, but keeping these involuntary urges contained can be draining.
What will it take for the league to survive, expand and carve out its own identity in an increasingly saturated pro sports landscape?
A version of ‘Fountain’ is part of the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s permanent collection and will appear in the Duchamp retrospective, which...
Cooler ocean temperatures east of the islands typically keep major hurricanes away, but El Niño is helping fuel this year’s risks.
TikTok’s lawsuit fits a pattern – from cigarettes to opioids – of courts stepping in where lawmakers won’t.
‘The Bible Belt’ has been used for a century to describe religion and politics in the South. But it captured just some of life in the region then...
The UN Security Council calls the shots when it comes to appointing the body’s chief – which means 5 permanent members have an outsized say on the...
Programs took different approaches to helping young viewers grapple with the horrors of the 9/11 terrorist attacks – lessons that still apply in...
How will the Supreme Court justices approach the vote-by-mail case that concerns the most fundamental right in a democracy, the right to vote? A...
Tiny geolocators measure light levels and atmospheric pressure to reveal the migrations of small songbirds – including the yellow-rumped warbler,...
60 years of ‘Star Trek’: A cultural anthropologist on how the show’s “infinite diversity in infinite combinations” conception helped shape...
Radio spectrum is a critical but limited resource, but advances in technology are making it possible to share.
Medicine and technology may have advanced, but the dangers of the wilderness remain unchanged. The Oregon Trail game provides timeless tips on how to...
Huachuma, the Andean cactus better known as San Pedro, contains mescaline, a psychoactive compound that alters perception and mood.
After the deadly Grand Canyon flood, a geologist and avid hiker explains what nature lovers need to prepare and watch for to stay safe.
Research has repeatedly found that stadiums generate little economic benefit, while subsidy referendums often fail when put before voters. Yet team...
The people who stretch a person’s sense of humanity may be the ones no algorithm currently selects.
Search engines, social media and AI models can be made as safe and reliable as bridges and water supplies.
A new study shows what microbes and odors on human skin appeal to different species of mosquitoes.
Berry’s belief that humans have a responsibility to care for God’s creation traces back to the Book of Genesis. So does an opposing argument for...
Congress never built a path from temporary status to permanent residence, leaving many people facing deportation with little recourse.
After the deadly Grand Canyon flood, a geologist and avid hiker explains what nature lovers need to prepare and watch for to stay safe.
There is a strange nostalgia in realizing that something once so immediate now belongs increasingly to people who know it only as the past.
Shoppers are increasingly hunting for value, which puts the onus on businesses to tread carefully when justifying price hikes.