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The United States has a child care crisis, yet the issue remains largely invisible in the farm sector. 

To limit the damage of extreme weather, communities need to know who is at risk and how they can be better prepared, an expert says.

The NRA has shored up its financial position over the last few years. However, the way in which that financial recovery came about risks hemorrhaging the NRA’s core supporters.

While no one is going to turn into a zombie from eating pancakes in real life, flour is often contaminated with fungi that can produce mycotoxins that make people sick.

President Joe Biden announced that he intends to end both the national emergency and the public health emergency declarations related to COVID-19 on May 11, 2023. Here is what that means for the nation....

China is now no longer an imitator nor producer of only low-quality science. China is now a scientific power on par with the U.S. and Europe, both in quantity and in quality.

The NOTAM system is about safety. When the system is down, pilots can’t fly as safely. It is for good reason that planes don’t go anywhere unless the NOTAM system is up and running.

The Respect for Marriage Act has various limitations that have not received a lot of public attention. That means it may not lead to legal protection and equality for all.

The FTX collapse  highlights the inherent risks charities face when they hold onto crypto assets and engage with these largely unregulated markets. 

Views of evangelicals on campus are interesting, since they highlight the complexities of social privilege: how individuals can feel discriminated against, even when their community as a whole is influential....

Looking at other kinds of truth commissions in different countries provides insight into what the Jan. 6 committee’s legacy might be – chiefly, it can help develop a narrative of what American democracy means....

When computer science courses are delivered through career and technical education in high school, the courses can help students with learning disabilities feel better about their ability to succeed in STEM....

While devices such as smart thermostats and security systems are widely used in homes today, the commercial use of household robots is still in its infancy.

Belonging to one or more groups with long-standing social and economic disadvantages increases the risk of cancer diagnoses and death, according to our review of 28 cancer studies published between 2012 and 2021....

Beginning July 16, 2022, people struggling with mental health crises can call 988, a new number focused on providing lifesaving suicide prevention and crisis services. But 988 is not just a shorter, easier-to-remember replacement for the current suic...

Taxes on guns and ammunition sales provide a growing share of budgets for state fish and game agencies. But we have found that the growth in conservation funding driven by exploding guns sales presents at least three critical moral and ethical issues...

A missed delivery of weapons to the Ukraine military  doesn’t just mean a dissatisfied customer. It means that a sovereign nation may not be able to defend itself.

When farmers spray dicamba on hot days, it tends to vaporize and drift off target, spreading to fields and farms that often are not planted with crops genetically engineered to tolerate it. 

More than six months after non-fungible tokens began disrupting the art world, museums have generally engaged very little with NFTs. Two experts explain why.

We have studied the growing prevalence of firearms on screen and believe that the more guns there are in movies, the more likely it is that a shooting will occur – both in the “reel” world and in the “real” world. ...

Chemists around the world – from poor and rich countries alike – can build on the technology that just won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Millions of unemployed Americans lost pandemic-related jobless benefits as of Labor Day – just as surging cases of coronavirus slow the pace of hiring.

Scientists have a big problem when trying to find DNA in dinosaur fossils. DNA deteriorates and ultimately disintegrates after about 7 million years - and the last dinosaur died more than 65 million years ago. ...

The Biden administration is likely celebrating a better-than-expected jobs report, which showed surging employment and wages. However, for millions of working Americans, being employed doesn’t guarantee a living income. ...

The risk of COVID-19 associated with travel is largely determined by how you will travel, where you’re going, who will be there and what you will do there.

Bob Moses, who died on July 25, was a pioneering civil rights organizer who found his life's work in helping Black students learn math.

Although the two spacecraft launched in July 2021 will not reach orbit, the accomplishment of reaching space in private spacecraft is a major milestone in the history of humanity. 

Recent studies found that about half of the people we surveyed indicated that their upcoming weekend trip felt like it would end as soon as it started.

There are healthy ways to manage body anxiety and cultivate a positive body image while reemerging from the pandemic.

Through interviews, surveys and conversations with farmers, we have documented how household expenses like access to health care and child care undercut investments that could increase food production across the United States. ...