South Florida’s Brightline has highlighted an old problem – every year for the past decade, 900 pedestrians were killed by trains

Railway safety has vastly improved for motor vehicles, but reducing the risk of collisions with pedestrians is much trickier.

For some Jewish women, ‘passing’ as Christian during the Holocaust could mean survival – but left scars all the same

Some women adopted non-Jewish identities to support the resistance. For most, though, it was simply a strategy for survival – ...

Broncos say their new stadium will be ‘privately financed,’ but ‘private’ often still means hundreds of millions in public resources

The Denver Broncos announced in early September 2025 their plan to build a privately financed football stadium. The proposal ...

Building ‘beloved community’: Remembering the friendship between Martin Luther King Jr. and Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh

Martin Luther King Jr. and Thich Nhat Hanh shared a vision of ‘beloved community’ that shows how democracy begins not with ...

Could ChatGPT convince you to buy something? Threat of manipulation looms as AI companies gear up to sell ads

AI companies are gearing up to follow the social media model of monetizing their platforms through advertising. The danger ...

From a new flagship space telescope to lunar exploration, global cooperation – and competition – will make 2026 an exciting year for space

The US, China, India, Europe and Japan all have exciting missions on the horizon in 2026. Many of them are collaborative ...

The ‘drug threat’ that justified the US ouster of Maduro won’t be fixed by his arrest

There is no evidence that US intervention in Venezuela will lead to a meaningful reduction in drugs flowing into the United ...

India shows how urban forests can help cool cities – as long as planners understand what nature and people need

Policies introduced by the Indian government to “green” urban areas often equate tree planting with cooling cities and ...

Reddit and TikTok - with the help of AI - are reshaping how researchers understand substance use

Platforms like Reddit, TikTok and YouTube host millions of posts, videos and comments, many filled with slang, sarcasm, ...

Whether or not US acquires Greenland, the island will be at the centre of a massive military build-up in the Arctic

But when the Soviet Union collapsed, heralding an end to the cold war, Greenland was relegated in importance. The US presence ...

There’s an intensifying kind of threat to academic freedom – watchful students serving as informants

Restricting academic freedom is often thought of in terms of universities telling professors what they can and cannot do or ...

How cocaine traffickers launder cartel money

The disappearance of 500-euro notes and the creation of bitcoin have led money laundering networks to pay drug traffickers in ...