Iran-US nuclear talks may fail due to both nations’ red lines – but that doesn’t make them futile
The latest rounds of nuclear talks between the U.S. and Iran are going well enough for now, according to the steady drip of public statements from the main parties involved.“I think they want to...
Nina Srinivasan Rathbun, Professor of International Relations, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto; USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Coffee crops are dying from a fungus with species-jumping genes – researchers are ‘resurrecting’ their genomes to understand how and why
For anyone who relies on coffee to start their day, coffee wilt disease may be the most important disease you’ve never heard of. This fungal disease has repeatedly reshaped the global coffee sup...
Lily Peck, Postdoctoral Scholar in Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles
Revisiting the story of Clementine Barnabet, a Black woman blamed for serial murders in the Jim Crow South
A grainy photograph of Clementine Barnabet.A 1912 edition of The Atlanta Constitution newspaper via Wikimedia CommonsIn April 1912, a young Black woman named Clementine Barnabet confessed to murdering...
Lauren Nicole Henley, Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond
In World War II’s dog-eat-dog struggle for resources, a Greenland mine launched a new world order
Greenland's cryolite mine, essential for U.S. airplane production, was below sea level and vulnerabl…
New dietary guidelines prioritize ‘real food’ – but low-income pregnant women can’t easily obtain it…
Most pregnant women in the U.S. aren't meeting dietary recommendations, especially in rural communit…
3 generations of Black Philadelphia students report persistent anti-Black attitudes in schools
Over 70 years after Brown v. Board of Education, public schools in the U.S. remain deeply segregated…
Warming winters are disrupting the hidden world of fungi – the result can shift mountain grasslands …
Warmer winters in normally snowy places can interfere with the important activities of microbes in t…
Atrocities take place in democratic nations as well as autocratic ones – our database has logged the…
Thousands of people were killed by Iranian security forces in days of protests in January 2026. Mean…
White men file workplace discrimination claims but are less likely to face inequity than other group…
In March 2025 the EEOC characterized DEI programs as potentially discriminatory against white men.Wo…
How do people know their interests? The shortest player in the NBA shows how self-belief matters mor…
Muggsy Bogues didn't let his height get in the way of his mastery of the game.Focus on Sport/Getty I…