Independent Analysis and Reportage
The Supreme Court’s rulings on Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J. focused on transgender students participating on sports teams, but likely has broader implications.
Winter evenings are the perfect time to escape into another world, with teachers in Korea, a fortune teller in Japan, or in a retirement village in New Mexico.
Scientific and engineering breakthroughs are allowing us to make ammonia from pollution rather than fossil fuels.
Yoga helps with health and wellbeing and is recommended to NHS patients in the UK, but new research shows people who could benefit most find it hardest to access.
Muslims were woven into both America’s founding population and its labor force, writes a scholar of Islam on the nation’s 250th anniversary.
Many relatives have not seen each other for years because travelling around Ukraine is unsafe and trips abroad are expensive and, sometimes, restricted.
Wildlife expert Vanessa Pirotta talks whale digestion on The Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast.
Based on past performance, economic sanctions will never be strong enough to denuclearise North Korea. There’s a better way.
Astronomers have revisited data from a dramatic collision of neutron stars to help resolve the infamous ‘Hubble tension’.
New research looking at social media hate before and after the October 7 attacks shows antisemitism and Islamophobia got worse, then stayed bad.
AI-generated faces don’t look weird anymore – they’re ‘hyperaverage’, which is a giveaway to the trained eye.
Companies facing hostile takeover threats invest more in environmental, social and governance initiatives, and the effect spreads to their competitors.