When data from the nation's 2020 census were released this summer, many asked John Logan: Is the country's segregation problem improving? His answer: It's complicated.
Social Sciences
Oct 5, 2021
0
17
Scientists have been excavating the ruins of Tikal, an ancient Maya city in modern-day Guatemala, since the 1950s—and thanks to those many decades spent documenting details of every structure and cataloguing each excavated ...
Archaeology
Sep 28, 2021
1
2237
In December 2020, Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft swung by Earth to drop off a cache of rock samples taken from a near-Earth asteroid called Ryugu. Asteroids like Ryugu are thought to represent the ancient building blocks of ...
Space Exploration
Sep 27, 2021
3
73
Nearly 20 years after the United States' invasion of Afghanistan, the cost of its global war on terror stands at $8 trillion and 900,000 deaths, according to a new report from the Costs of War project at Brown University.
Political science
Sep 1, 2021
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16
The Code of Hammurabi. The Magna Carta. The Declaration of Independence. Throughout recorded human history, written records such as these have proclaimed that people deserve freedom, security and dignity.
Social Sciences
Aug 5, 2021
0
818
Experts know political polarization in the United States is a problem. What they don't know, according to Rob Blair, is what to do about it.
Political science
Jul 2, 2021
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2
A new study of monsoon rainfall on the Indian subcontinent over the past million years provides vital clues about how the monsoons will respond to future climate change.
Earth Sciences
Jun 4, 2021
1
23
Schools in the U.S. are set to receive $123 billion in federal pandemic relief funding. Across the country, parents and school administrators are engaging in spirited debates about whether to teach critical race theory. And ...
Education
May 24, 2021
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2
The field of mathematical topology is often described in terms of donuts and pretzels.
Biotechnology
May 19, 2021
0
70
Since the 1950s, political scientists have theorized that political polarization—increased numbers of "political partisans" who view the world with an ideological bias—is associated with an inability to tolerate uncertainty ...
Political science
May 14, 2021
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