Science Mar 30 Studies suggest that with age comes a willingness to trust Despite what conventional wisdom may suggest, new research has revealed that people tend to be more willing to trust others as they age.
World Mar 25 Photo essay: DIY airplanes, submarines, Lamborghini and other homemade Chinese inventions What do restaurants, gunpowder and paper money have in common? They were all invented in China.
Science Mar 24 Scientists turn wastewood into high-octane fuel and artificial vanilla flavorings Mahdi Abu-Omar’s high-octane fuel and artificial vanilla flavoring share one thing in common. They both were developed from wastewood.
Science Mar 23 Prehistoric hunt suggests humans arrived in North America earlier than previously thought Bone fragments from seven horses and a camel suggest that the First Americans hunted and butchered these animals in North America at least 13,300 years ago after migrating from northeast Asia, hundreds of years earlier than previously thought.
Nation Mar 20 Federal authorities say no foul play in death of black man hanging in a tree in Mississippi A black man was found hanging in a tree in Mississippi, and now federal and state investigators are trying to determine if his death was a suicide or homicide.
Nation Mar 19 Here’s why it’s so hard to figure out how Millennials feel about racism What explains the conflicting data about how young people feel about race in America?…
Science Mar 16 How data may make better medicine Since the 1950s, overall productivity has gone down in biomedical and pharmaceutical research and development, but limited data exists to help policy and industry experts understand why. The Brookings Institution recently explored these issues in innovation.
Science Mar 13 Browse the early days of the internet with these GIFs March 15 marks the 30th anniversary of the birth of the .com domain suffix, or dotcom. In the early days, companies acquired their own dotcoms and developed a marketing presence on the Internet. Check out a few of these initial…
World Mar 11 Swine flu outbreak sweeping India worse than health officials admit, study suggests A new study suggests that a strain of swine flu currently sweeping India has mutated from one that spread worldwide in 2009, making the current strain far more dangerous than Indian health officials indicated.
Arts Mar 09 More than 2,000 years of India’s lost literature is coming back into print For more than 2,000 years, several volumes of classical South Asian texts remained locked away in languages that have either died, have a dwindling number of speakers or no one bothered to translate these stories for a global audience.