If the Amazon rainforest functions as our planet's lungs, what do raging wildfires threaten? An atmospheric scientist explains why the fires, though devastating, won't suffocate life on Earth.

Was a friend-of-the-court brief filed with the Supreme Court by five Democratic senators a legal argument – or a political threat?

For the 80th anniversary, Poland has changed the site of the usual commemoration ceremony and, for the first time, has invited a U.S. president to speak.

President Trump has said American Jews loyal to Israel should support the Republican Party. A scholar explains the historical tensions embedded in the anti-Semitic trope.

A higher education scholar explains how he came to oversee a set of college rankings meant to take a different tact than the more popular rankings from US News & World Report.

A new technique for detecting deepfakes conceives of videos as flip-books and looks for changes in successive frames of a sequence.

In Asian countries, many people wield umbrellas to protect them from the sun. American women used to as well – but then stopped.

The earliest years of children's lives represent some of the best opportunities to expand their vocabulary and language skills.

This Speed Read makes the case why you should be nice to spiders you encounter in your home and consider a live-and-let-live policy.

We have all the technologies needed to make the electric grid run on renewables and lower pollution. What are they and what are the barriers to adopting them widely?