When the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) passed a year ago, some of our international allies greeted it with a level of concern if not consternation given the IRA’s focus on expanding U.S. clean…
New research suggests the continent was devoid of hominins for about 200,000 years after a previously unknown cold snap A period of extreme cooling in western Europe may have driven…
After surgically attaching pairs of mice, scientists suggest the procedure could rejuvenate the older individuals, slowing their aging Connecting the bloodstreams of old and young mice can extend the lifespan…
Nechama Tec, Polish Holocaust Survivor and Scholar, Dies at 92 She wrote about heroic Jewish resisters in her book “Defiance,” which was later made into a film starring Daniel Craig…
Register for the program here. Sola Mahfouz tells her story in a new book about leaving Afghanistan, teaching herself math and English, and becoming a quantum computing researcher at Tufts University.…
Jessie Yeung, Anna Coren and Jawad Temori, CNN When Zahra thinks back to her life before the summer of 2021, it seems like another reality. As a student in Afghanistan,…
A state judge in Montana gave climate activists a decisive win on Monday when she ruled that the state’s support of fossil fuels violates their constitutional right to a clean…
Editor’s Note: Allison Gilbert is the co-author with Julia Scheeres of “Listen, World!,” the first biography of nationally syndicated newspaper columnist Elsie Robinson. Follow her at @agilbertwriter. The views expressed in this…
The nearest abortion clinic – in Chicago – was too far away and too expensive for her mother to provide her with the procedure A 13-year-old girl in Mississippi gave…
The State of Montana’s failure to consider greenhouse gas emissions from energy and mining projects violates the state constitution because it does not protect Montanans’ right to a clean and…