Explainer: how recovery high schools help kids with addiction
Lori K Holleran, University of Texas at Austin
The stories are all too common.
A popular high school football player was found dead not far from...
What happened to the oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill? ‘Marine snow’ provides a...
Uta Passow, University of California, Santa Barbara
After the accident on the Deepwater Horizon platform five year ago in the Gulf of Mexico, an estimated...
Progressive social movements spurred Holocaust consciousness by helping survivors tell their stories
Arlene Stein, Rutgers University
Today, the destruction of European Jewry is widely recognized as a universal moral touchstone. A museum commemorating the destruction sits in...
How the brain reads music: the evidence for musical dyslexia
Jennifer Mishra, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Music education in the western world often emphasizes musical literacy, the ability to read musical notation fluently. But this...
Flashbulb memories – why do we remember learning about dramatic events so vividly?
Jennifer Talarico, Lafayette College
It isn’t surprising that many Bostonians have vivid memories of the 2013 Marathon bombing, or that many New Yorkers have...
What tourists need to know about earthquakes and other geohazards
Cynthia Ebinger, University of Rochester
Saturday just before noon, tourists posted photos of Nepal’s World Heritage sites, walking side by side with Nepalese residents of...
Is your kid having fun reading? Here are some tips
Michiko Hikida, University of Texas at Austin and Jennifer Keys Adair, University of Texas at Austin
Not being able to read is a problem but...
Hubble in pictures: astronomers’ top picks
Tanya Hill, Museum Victoria
In this special feature, we have invited top astronomers to handpick the Hubble Space Telescope image that has the most scientific...
