Nation Sep 12 California lawmakers approve physician-assisted suicide In a vote of 23 to 14, California lawmakers approved a bill allowing physician-assisted suicide on Friday.
World Sep 06 Pope calls for parishes, Vatican to host migrants in act of solidarity In his weekly address on Sunday, Pope Francis announced the Vatican would host migrant families fleeing war and hunger, and asked that every religious institution in Europe do the same.
Arts Sep 05 The dy(e)ing art of Mexico’s Mixtecs For centuries, the indigenous Mixtec people of Mexico's Oaxaca region have used the purple dye that comes from milking a sea snail to make their brightly colored clothing, but the snail – and their way of life – is in…
World Sep 05 Japan allows residents to return to town near Fukushima Residents returned to a town near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on Saturday, as Japanese government officials celebrated a lift on a four-and-a-half-year evacuation order, deeming the area safe after radiation levels had fallen.
Science Aug 30 Looking for a way to store data for millennia? Try DNA. The breakthrough could lead to the creation of digital archives, storing everything from ancient texts to Wikipedia pages in DNA form that could survive for hundreds of thousands of years without the loss of any data.
Science Aug 22 150 years on, meet the prolific pioneer who brought us the movie projector Before the digital revolution hit the movie industry, the projector used in movie theaters was an evolution of the Phantoscope, developed by Charles Francis Jenkins, who was born nearly 150 years ago on Saturday.
Nation Aug 15 Remembering Will Rogers: 80 years on, how the ‘cowboy philosopher’ popularized political humor Eighty years ago Saturday, William Penn Adair, better known as Will Rogers, an entertainer, humorist, political commentator and writer, died in a plane crash in Alaska.
Arts Aug 09 ‘There still is a lot stacked against us’: Ferguson inspires year of art The death of Michael Brown and a grand jury's subsequent decision not to indict the officer who shot him spurred nationwide protests. But the events in Ferguson also inspired creative responses from artistic communities both within St. Louis County and across the…
Science Jul 26 Study suggests Japan falsified whale hunting data during the 1960s Japanese commercial whale fleets are accused of altering their records in the late 1960s, according to a study published recently in the journal Royal Society Open Science.
World Jul 11 Photo essay: Migrants share their most cherished belongings Take an inside look into the journeys and lives of several migrants, as captured by a group of international photojournalists.