Broken mirrors can be associated with bad luck, but for the ancient Maya, a cracked mirror was often desirable.
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Cassava’s many assets would seem to make it the ideal crop, except for one drawback: It’s highly poisonous. Human ingenuity has made cassava edible for millennia.
Mountain tourism brings revenues to Nepal but leaves a mess behind. Local and international groups are offering new cleanup strategies.
When asked, students say that touch is important in developing reading and writing skills. Research backs them up.
These electric aircraft take off and land vertically so they don’t need runways. And they promise a quieter, more accessible and less polluting form of short-distance air travel than helicopters.
Lawsuits are inevitable, but an environmental lawyer explains why the EPA’s new power plant regulations are on solid ground.
It turns out that identifying as a reader can be more about community, wealth and gender than how much someone actually reads.
A social science researcher followed a dozen teens from different neighborhoods in North, West and Northeast Philadelphia, tracking their family histories and heart rates as they navigated daily life.
The Democrats and Republicans try to keep them off the ballot. But third-party campaigns can inject new ideas and force major parties to incorporate a wider array of interests.
A professor shows science students how humanities classes are the real stem that other disciplines sprout from. They learn that critical thinking and skepticism don’t stop when they leave the lab.
EV fires make headlines, but they don’t tell the full story of EV safety. The real threat isn’t combustion, it’s weight.
You can thank yeast and bacteria for the distinctive taste and smell of the oldest leavened bread in history.
What happens in November 2024 could influence other states weighing their own options.
In Gaza, Sudan, Haiti and elsewhere around the globe, famine affects increasing numbers of people.
Prosecuting leaders indicted for war crimes is difficult. But the trial of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic in the early 2000s offers a potential playbook.
Adolescents treat ‘for you’ algorithms as a social mirror and are willing to give up privacy to use it.
Detroit is one of the country’s most segregated regions, but census data shows how that’s changing in both the city and suburbs.
Meetings with Joe Biden and Donald Trump suggest Japan is hedging over the outcome of the US election.
A powerful storm system produced dozens of destructive tornadoes over three days that tore apart homes in Oklahoma, Nebraska and Iowa. A meteorologist explains the conditions that fueled them.
Your sprinting skills have a lot to do with genetics, but your brain also plays a big role.
Online dating has its own jargon. But the feelings involved are nothing new.
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, conservative activists led a counterattack against campus antiwar and civil rights demonstrators by demanding action from college presidents, the courts and the police.
Legal psychology researchers are investigating how police treat drunken suspects, how impaired people behave when questioned, and how juries consider their statements.
Modern web browsers are increasingly becoming like virtual computers, able to send email and play music and videos. The downside is it’s a new way for hackers to get into your computer.
Philadelphia has a high rate of gun homicides despite having relatively few gun owners and gun stores compared with other US cities.