Parents tend to choose their children’s schools based on their own educational experience
Anna Rhodes, Rice University and Julia Szabo, Rice University
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic...
Cloud seeding can increase rain and snow, and new techniques may make it a...
Daniel Merino, The Conversation and Nehal El-Hadi, The Conversation
When an unexpected rainstorm leaves you soaking wet, it is...
Tupac’s ‘Dear Mama’ endures as rap artists detail complex relationships with their mothers, street...
A.D. Carson, University of Virginia
In hip-hop music, it sometimes seems as if songs to and about mothers are...
Lessons from ‘Star Trek: Picard’ – a cybersecurity expert explains how a sci-fi series...
Richard Forno, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Editor’s note: This article contains plot spoilers.
Society’s...
Mindfulness, meditation and self-compassion – a clinical psychologist explains how these science-backed practices can...
Rachel Goldsmith Turow, Seattle University
Mindfulness and self-compassion are now buzzwords for self-improvement. But in fact, a growing body...
How did abuse get baked into the restaurant industry?
Ellen T. Meiser, University of Hawaii at Hilo and Eli R. Wilson, University of New Mexico
When the The...
FDA’s approval of the world’s first vaccine against RSV will offer a new tool...
Annette Regan, University of San Francisco
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the world’s first vaccine to prevent...
Reconstructing ancient bacterial genomes can revive previously unknown molecules – offering a potential source...
Christina Warinner, Harvard University; Alexander Hübner, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and Pierre Stallforth, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Microorganisms –...






















