Carbon offsets aren't helping Appalachians

Murderous mice attack and kill nesting albatrosses on Midway Atoll − scientists struggle to stop this gruesome new behavior

Wieteke Holthuijzen, University of Tennessee

On a small, remote island in the Pacific Ocean, an unlikely predator feasts on the world’s largest albatross colony. Researchers are trying to figure out how to stop these murderous mice.

3D printing promises more efficient ways to make custom explosives and rocket propellants

Monique McClain, Purdue University

‘Energetic’ materials are ones that readily ignite or detonate. The shapes of those materials have a big effect on how they burn or blow up.

Nikki Haley insists she can lose South Carolina and still get the nomination – but that would defy history

Charles R. Hunt, Boise State University

A presidential candidate’s ‘home state advantage’ should help them win a primary, which then bodes well for how they do in successive contests. But if they lose their home state, they’re in trouble.

How politicians can draw fairer election districts − the same way parents make kids fairly split a piece of cake

Benjamin Schneer, Harvard Kennedy School; Kevin DeLuca, Yale University; Maxwell Palmer, Boston University

Electoral redistricting is a high-stakes political game, so Democrats and Republicans have a hard time playing fair. When they’re made to work together, a more representative result is possible.

Separate water fountains for Black people still stand in the South – thinly veiled monuments to the long, strange, dehumanizing history of segregation

Rodney Coates, Miami University

Though the Civil Rights Act of 1964 officially ended racial discrimination in public places, relics of the Jim Crow South still haunt modern memory.

Nearly 2 million Americans are using kratom yearly, but it is banned in multiple states: A pharmacologist explains the controversy

C. Michael White, University of Connecticut

Long-term use of kratom may actually reduce pain tolerance and cause physical dependence and withdrawal symptoms.

How Lula’s big-tent pragmatism won over Brazil again – with a little help from a backlash to Bolsonaro

Anthony Pereira, Florida International University

The third-term president has used his experience and personal relationships with lawmakers to build the majorities that now support his agenda.

New research debunks the ‘unhappy worker’ narrative, but finds most still believe it

Scott Schieman, University of Toronto

Could the adverse effects of anti-work rhetoric spread beyond one’s own job perception? A sociologist’s recent research sheds light on the question.

Mexico is suing US gun-makers for arming its gangs − and a US court could award billions in damages

Navalny dies in prison − but his blueprint for anti-Putin activism will live on

Atlantic Ocean is headed for a tipping point − once melting glaciers shut down the Gulf Stream, we would see extreme climate change within decades, study shows