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Mobility and situatedness are tied to privilege. Such is the difference between immigration and displacement, the expatriate and the refugee. It is as old as the modern nation-state itself ...
Stacker compiled a list of the best public colleges in America using 2026 rankings from Niche, which ranks schools on ...
A steep climb eventually led them onto the ridge of Mynydd Pen-y-fal and then finally to its summit which stands at 596m or 1,955ft above sea level and straight into a blustery wind, so they ventured ...
Scanning the crowd at a fancy soiree may reveal a wide array of neckties, each fastened with a highly complex mathematical object masquerading as fashion. An entire field of mathematics is devoted to ...
Researchers tested 12 “magic mushroom” edible products sold in Portland, Ore., and found no trace of psilocybin, the hallucinogenic compound that gives magic mushrooms their name. Instead seven of the ...
More than half a billion people around the world have downloaded artificial-intelligence chatbot companion apps such as Xiaoice and Replika. These virtual confidantes can provide empathy, support and, ...
Your name could make it to the moon along with NASA’s Artemis II mission next year—the first time a crew will travel to Earth’s natural satellite in more than 50 years. Anyone can submit their name in ...
The most enthralling rock yet found on Mars—a speckled hunk of mudstone that just may contain evidence of ancient alien life—is still worth getting excited about. The rock in question is packed with ...
Soon after psychiatrist Leo Kanner first identified autism in the 1940s, he and his colleagues proposed a simple explanation for its cause: mothers’ “lack of genuine warmth” toward their children.
The spotted ratfish is a two-foot-long fish with a big head and a long, skinny tail that lives in the northeastern Pacific Ocean. It belongs to a group of fish called chimaeras that are closely ...
Forget about turtles; for all practical purposes, it’s really particles all the way down. Consider the seemingly simple matter of their size, the very thing that makes them so alien. We’re typically ...
Criticisms of the food industry have gone mute in a second White House report on improving childhood health—where they have been replaced by a lengthy list of research questions on the problem and ...