How to bring the teen pregnancy rate down
By Colleen McNicholas, Washington University in St Louis
Teen pregnancy is a public health problem in the United States. According to 2010 estimates, girls aged...
Here’s how to fix America’s crumbling bridges
By Henry Petroski, Duke University
There are about 600,000 bridges in the United States, and about one in four is classified as functionally obsolete or...
Brains transform remote threats into anxiety
By Kevin LaBar, Duke University
Modern life can feel defined by low-level anxiety swirling through society. Continual reports about terrorism and war. A struggle to...
Where have all the wonder women gone?
By Elana Levine, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
In the epilogue to Jill Lepore’s new book, The Secret History of Wonder Woman, we learn about Wonder Woman’s...
Regulating the sacred: why the US halal food industry needs better oversight
By Mohammed Ayub Khan, McMaster University
For many Muslims, adherence to Islamic dietary laws, known as halal, is an intrinsic part of their everyday lives....
When adopted children forget their birth language, it may not be lost without a...
By Monika Schmid, University of Essex
How robust are languages learned in childhood but disused later in life? A new study by researchers at McGill...
Lips are the most exposed erogenous zone, which makes kissing feel very good
By Sheril Kirshenbaum, University of Texas at Austin
Scientists in the Netherlands have reported that we share about 80m bacteria during a passionate ten-second kiss;...
The unknown crocodiles
By Vladimir Dinets, University of Tennessee
Just a few years ago, crocodilians – crocodiles, alligators and their less-known relatives – were mostly thought of as...
