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As the NFL Draft starts in Chicago, it is important to remember that most college athletes need to pay attention to their academic life: only about 4% will go on to play professionally.
Checking online reviews is a big part of shopping. But review sites can be manipulated. Does favoring reviews posted by your social media contacts help with trustworthy, meaningful content?
The final public comment session for the 2015 Dietary Guidelines ends on May 8. So what do you need know?
The news media are a major presence in the Baltimore riots. Are they providing an accurate picture of what’s going on?
Experts in the field of human factors – how people interact with machines – warn that “self-driving” cars need to be more of a cooperative effort between human driver and tech than the hype would suggest.
The pursuit to get into the best colleges has taken out the joy of learning from students’ lives.
Sanctions have a terrible track record of success because they’re usually too weak to work and too easy to get around.
Why hasn’t the American Psychological Association prohibited members from participating in interrogations? And what are future psychologists learning about military medical ethics?
A panel of scholars comments on the origins and the implications of the violence in Baltimore.
The earthquake in Kathmandu – a popular tourist destination – killed both locals and visitors. Here’s what travelers can do to pack for geohazards.
Divestment campaigns aim to halt the use of fossil fuels, but the climate can be also stabilized through ‘recarbonization’ techniques, such as reforestation and changing agricultural practices.
In many states fathers can be incarcerated for failing to pay child support. This is a crisis that needs addressing.
A massive public investment program financed by the European Investment Bank will help fix the problem at the heart of the euro.
If the biblical flood occurred just a few thousand years ago, that doesn’t leave enough time for the geologic history we see in rocks and fossils.
Teen drug abuse is a real problem with 46% of high school students hooked on some addictive substance. Recovery high schools are offering a new model of treatment.
Officials in Indiana would have served the population better if syringe exchanges had been in place before the upsurge in HIV cases began.
Centrifuges, plutonium, uranium enrichment – what’s the nuclear science behind the deal to curb Iran’s atomic weapons program.
Jurors will likely be presented with conflicting notions of sanity and insanity. And they will be forced to confront widely held cultural assumptions about mental illness and violence.
The fashionistas aren’t flocking there yet but things are happening in Brick City – especially when it comes to education policy.
The bill in Congress represents a healthy compromise that gives the president negotiating room while offering lawmakers more say on key trade issues.
A flock of scientists turned their focus to understand the Deepwater Horizon’s impact, including one team that studied deep-sea corals.
Guns will be allowed on public universities in Texas from August 1. Given the recent incident of a student shooting the professor and then himself, reportedly over grades, are there reasons to worry?
A new exhibit at the Detroit Institute of Arts highlights a controversial mural commissioned during a period fraught with social unrest.
Ash and mudflows are the biggest dangers from the unexpected eruption from the Calbuco volcano in Chile.