America's aging infrastructure can't handle the heat

Yes, Black patients do want to help with medical research – here are ways to overcome the barriers that keep clinical trials from recruiting diverse populations

Julia Liu, Morehouse School of Medicine; RaKetra Snipes, Morehouse School of Medicine

Overcoming the access barriers and biases that underrepresented and underserved communities face could not only improve research participation but also improve care.

Meditation holds the potential to help treat children suffering from traumas, difficult diagnoses or other stressors – a behavioral neuroscientist explains

Hilary A. Marusak, Wayne State University

A new study provides the first glimpse into what happens in children’s brains as they meditate.

Ghost islands of the Arctic: The world’s ‘northern-most island’ isn’t the first to be erased from the map

Kevin Hamilton, University of Hawaii

The new discovery echoes a mission in 1931, when a five-day zeppelin flight sent robots to the stratosphere and redrew the maps of the high Arctic.

Building something better: How community organizing helps people thrive in challenging times

Stephanie Malin, Colorado State University; Meghan Elizabeth Kallman, UMass Boston

Organizers across the US are finding innovative grassroots strategies for helping people thrive. Many of these ventures emphasize working together as part of communities and collective systems.

The Southern Ocean absorbs more heat than any other ocean on Earth, and the impacts will be felt for generations

Maurice Huguenin, UNSW Sydney; Matthew England, UNSW Sydney; Ryan Holmes, University of Sydney

Southern Ocean heat uptake accounts for almost all the planet’s ocean warming, thereby controlling the rate of climate change.

Choosing university or college courses? 5 questions for students to consider

Terence Day, Simon Fraser University; Paul N. McDaniel, Kennesaw State University

Different professors teach differently. If you’re a student with choices in a program, it makes sense to find out what you’re getting.

Christian nationalism is getting written out of the story of January 6

Police response to 5-year-old boy who left school was problematic from the start

Why is ‘Blonde’ – Netflix’s Marilyn Monroe biopic – rated NC-17 instead of TV-MA?