Climbing the tree: the case for chimpanzee ‘personhood’
Jane Johnson
Hercules and Leo don’t know it, but a decision about their future has made history. In granting an order to show cause on...
Why this generation of teens is more likely to care about gun violence
Jean Twenge, San Diego State University
When 17 people were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, it was just the latest...
More online shopping means more delivery trucks. Are cities ready?
Anne Goodchild, University of Washington and Barbara Ivanov, University of Washington
Two converging trends – the rise of e-commerce and urban population growth – are...
DeVos speech shows contempt for the agency she heads
Mark Hlavacik, University of North Texas
When Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos spoke at the American Enterprise Institute on Jan. 16, she began by emphasizing...
In focus: New Horizons’ crisp images shed new light on the origins of Pluto...
Scott Kenyon, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Eighty-five years after Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto, we’re finally getting an up-close and personal look, thanks to NASA’s New...
Eating out might be devouring your food budget – and you probably have no...
Amit Sharma, Pennsylvania State University
If you were to guess how much you spend on eating out per month, chances are you’ll miss the mark...
Fewer births and divorces, more violence: how the recession affected the American family
By Philip Cohen, University of Maryland
Observers may be quick to declare social trends “good” or “bad” for families, but such conclusions are rarely justified....
How myths and tabloids feed on anomalies in science
By Michael J. I. Brown, Monash University
UNDERSTANDING RESEARCH: What do we actually mean by research and how does it help inform our understanding of...
