How small birds evolved from giant meat eating dinosaurs
By Mike Lee and Gareth Dyke, University of Southampton
Spectacular transitional fossils, many from northern China, provide overwhelming evidence that dinosaurs evolved into birds and...
How childbearing varies across US women in 3 charts
Caroline Sten Hartnett, University of South Carolina
Falling U.S. fertility rates have been making headlines.
These reports tend to focus on a single measure: the average...
3 ways that big data reveals what you really like to watch, read and...
Anjana Susarla, Michigan State University
Anyone who’s watched “Bridget Jones’s Diary” knows one of her New Year’s resolutions is “Not go out every night but...
Corporate hostility to ‘religious freedom’ laws shows vital role of business pushing social issues
Edward L Queen, Emory University
Indiana and Georgia, two states whose policies have a history of being aggressively pro-business, recently found themselves in trouble with...
How a study about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome was doctored, adding to pain and stigma
The public relies on scientists to report their findings accurately and completely, but that does not always happen....
How where you’re born influences the person you become
Samuel Putnam, Bowdoin College and Masha A. Gartstein, Washington State University
As early as the fifth century, the Greek philosopher Thucydides contrasted the self-control and...
The lies we tell on dating apps to find love
David Markowitz, University of Oregon
Nearly one-fourth of young adults are looking for love through dating websites or apps.
This relatively new form of courtship...
School shootings prompted protests, debates about best ways to keep students safe: 5 essential...
Jamaal Abdul-Alim, The Conversation
Editor’s note: As we come to the end of the year, Conversation editors take a look back at the stories that...
