Millennials may be proving that coming to marriage later, with less rigid roles, is enabling the sort of marriages that Boomers idealized—and too often failed to create. | Continue reading
New Australian research finds that, when a neighborhood's green space leads to better health outcomes, it's the canopy of trees that provides most of the benefits. | Continue reading
The belief that hidden memories can be "recovered" in therapy should have been exorcised years ago, when a rash of false memories dominated the airwaves, tore families apart, and put people on the stand for crimes they didn't commit. But the mental health establishment does not a … | Continue reading
A healthy, inexpensive, environmentally friendly solution for housing millions of retiring baby boomers is staring us in the face. We just know it by a dirty name. | Continue reading
An analysis of modern DNA uncovers a rough dating scene after the advent of agriculture. | Continue reading
Human error helped worsen a nuclear meltdown just outside Los Angeles, and now human inertia has stymied the radioactive cleanup for half a century. | Continue reading
Forty years ago, thanks to an organization founded by four high school friends, human rights beat out the free market—and now we can all pee for free. | Continue reading
Rent control has long been criticized by economists, but the list of theoretical harms often aren't observable in reality. With a lack of serious public housing funding, the policy may be one of the best, and cheapest, ways to protect low-income families. | Continue reading
The trouble with ignorance is that it feels so much like expertise. A leading researcher on the psychology of human wrongness sets us straight. | Continue reading
Today, refurbished missile silos are selling for millions of dollars to buyers preparing for societal collapse. Ed Peden and Dianna Ricke-Peden started the | Continue reading
How did toast become the latest artisanal food craze? Ask a trivial question, get a profound, heartbreaking answer. | Continue reading
Political science professors are increasingly being forced to choose which form of inclusivity to prioritize. That decision will have a large impact on the face of higher education for decades to come. | Continue reading
The Charleston Gazette-Mail, known for its dogged accountability journalism, survived a merger and bankruptcy. Will it survive a new owner with ties to the very industries its reporters have been watchdogging? | Continue reading
New research finds certain green behaviors are linked with masculine and feminine stereotypes. | Continue reading
Two new books argue that the attention economy is unsustainable—for people, and for the planet. | Continue reading
Is the genetically engineered chestnut tree an act of ecological restoration or a threat to wild forests? | Continue reading
An estimated 524,000 children work unlimited hours in America's grueling agricultural fields, and it's all perfectly legal. | Continue reading
The enormous opioid lawsuits across the nation are affecting pain science too. | Continue reading
An excerpt from Robert Macfarlane's new book Underland. | Continue reading
While CRISPR technology is generating a new wave of optimism for curing neurological diseases, experts warn that it has to be one part of a larger approach. | Continue reading
The court ruled that First Amendment protections don't apply to a corporation that operates a public access channel in New York. | Continue reading
Fifty years ago 180,000 whales disappeared from the oceans without a trace, and researchers are still trying to make sense of why. Inside the most irrational environmental crime of the century. | Continue reading
Jessica Pan's new memoir offers a glimpse at a better world—one where we're open to meaningful interactions, rather than stuck in isolation. | Continue reading
New research shows lower mortality rates for people who feel their life has meaning. | Continue reading
New research provides one possible answer: Highly creative people have a stronger ability to see things from other people's perspectives. | Continue reading
What would it look like if a small group of billionaires took unilateral climate action through solar radiation management? | Continue reading
The progressive case for the SAT is about as risible as the progressive case for war in Iraq was. | Continue reading
One man's mission to make meat obsolete. | Continue reading
Universities are increasingly turning to graduate programs to balance their books. Students are shouldering the costs. | Continue reading
New research finds that people avoid connecting emotionally with others out of a fear that it will be too draining. | Continue reading
A recent paper has revealed the first direct link (in a non-human species) between female mating preference and intelligence. | Continue reading
There's a clear need to rethink what "impact" means, given the concept's distorting effect on students' priorities and ethics. | Continue reading
Researchers created an algorithm to identify people most at risk for longterm homelessness in Los Angeles. Some worry the tool itself poses risks. | Continue reading
Our findings suggest that college-age members of Generation Z know they are confronting a future of big challenges. | Continue reading
A recent study shows that, while intact forests are playing a large role in absorbing CO2, it's only a fraction of the amount human activity creates. | Continue reading
Participants who saw trigger warnings before reading or watching upsetting content felt as negative afterwards as those who did not. | Continue reading
The crowd responded well to Amy Klobuchar's campaign launch. Will the rest of the country? | Continue reading
It's time to end the boot-camp approach to grad school. | Continue reading
Thanks in part to the work of Hanns Scharff and a slew of studies on interrogation techniques, we know it’s best to be genuinely friendly no matter who you’re trying to get information out of. | Continue reading
The idea that addiction is typically a chronic, progressive disease that requires treatment is false, the evidence shows. Yet the "aging out" experience of the majority is ignored by treatment providers and journalists. | Continue reading
By resorting to satire, did Portland State University professor Peter Boghossian violate basic professional and ethical standards? | Continue reading
In 2013, when FEMA redrew flood maps for the coast of Maine to account for more powerful hurricanes, some of the new high-risk zones were not only inaccurate, but expensive and difficult to correct. Wealthy vacation towns could easily foot the bill, protecting access to developme … | Continue reading
Research suggests it can—but the real answer is more complicated. | Continue reading
The science does not support the idea that we can alter a child's DNA to ensure certain health and intelligence outcomes. | Continue reading
Statisticians have shown that many scientific findings are wrong, and without an increase in statistical know-how for scientists it'll continue happening. | Continue reading
A man convicted in an illegal, multi-year deer poaching scheme, was sentenced to watch Bambi once a month. While the punishment is certainly unique, the methodology isn't. | Continue reading