This past year, many people deleted their social media accounts following revelations about privacy violations on social media platforms and other concerns related to hate speech.
As people adopt their resolutions for the year, it is likely that many...
As Americans increasingly buy and install smart devices in their homes, all those cheap interconnected devices create new security problems for individuals and society as a whole. The problem is compounded by businesses radically expanding the...
Read more: The quiet threat inside 'internet of things' devices
National Geographic’s March 2015 cover story provided a thoughtful discussion around the question of “Why Do Many Reasonable People Doubt...
President Donald Trump wants US$5.7 billion to fund a border wall to keep out undocumented immigrants and “criminals.” Democrats in Congress say the wall is a waste of money that wouldn’t solve any of America’s actual immigration programs.
Caught...
Read more: Federal workers begin to feel pain of shutdown as 800,000 lose their paychecks
The Supreme Court will decide in 2019 whether a Virginia law that bans uranium mining is preempted by the Atomic Energy Act, the U.S. law governing the processing and enrichment of nuclear material.
The case, Virginia Uranium, Inc. v. Warren, will require the court...
Read more: Virginia's uranium mining battle flips traditional views of federal and state power
Human actions have boosted carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere to levels higher than any measured over the last 160,000 years. Rising concern over the risk of severe impacts from climate change is spurring research into ways in which ecosystems may mitigate...
Read more: Mapping the world's 'blue carbon' hot spots in coastal mangrove forests
Fear is arguably as old as life. It is deeply ingrained in the living organisms that have survived extinction through billions of years of evolution. Its roots are deep in our core psychological and biological...
Read more: The politics of fear: How fear goes tribal, allowing us to be manipulated
A new federal report does a good job of explaining what many researchers have been saying for a decade – food insecurity among college students is a serious national problem.
As one University of California, Berkeley student revealed in an interview...
From the late 1920s until his death in 1955, George Platt Lynes was one of the world’s most successful commercial and fine art photographers.
His work...
Read more: The forgotten legacy of gay photographer George Platt Lynes
Parts of the federal government have been closed since midnight on Dec. 22, making it the second-longest shutdown on record. It’s also the third since President Donald Trump took office.
The immediate and most visible impact of a...
