With antibiotic resistance becoming a major threat, figuring out how resistance to antibiotics emerges and spreads among bacterial populations will be increasingly important.
Here’s How to Increase Diversity in STEM at the College Level and Beyond
The Meyerhoff Scholars program has been called the “gold standard” for providing a path into STEM research for underrepresented students in the field.
Duke Ellington’s Melodies Carried his Message of Social Justice
At a moment when there is a longstanding heated debate over how artists and pop culture figures should engage in social activism, the life and career of musical legend Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington offers a model of how to do it right.
Japan’s next emperor is a modern, multilingual environmentalist
For the first time in 217 years, a Japanese emperor will cede his place on the imperial throne.
April 15 Is the Day Tobacco Companies Pay $9 Billion for Tobacco Illnesses, but Is It Enough?
Payments from tobacco companies help support health care for low-income people served by state Medicaid programs.
New York Gets Serious about Traffic with the First Citywide US Congestion Pricing Plan
Congestion pricing forces users to reevaluate their travel patterns.
Want to Fix Gerrymandering? Then the Supreme Court Needs to Listen to Mathematicians
Defining a standard to identify partisan – and possibly illegal – gerrymandering.
Restoring tropical forests isn’t meaningful if those forests only stand for 10 or 20 years
Despite conservation efforts, the global rate of loss of tropical forests is accelerating, reaching a 15-year high in 2016.
The real women of ‘The Favourite’ included an 18th-century Warren Buffett
One of the challengers at this year’s Oscars is “The Favourite,” a film set in the early 18th-century court of British monarch Queen Anne. But how does the portrayal of these women stack up against the historical reality?
Why US cities are becoming more dangerous for cyclists and pedestrians
As cities strive to improve the quality of life for their residents, many are working to promote walking and biking. Such policies make sense, since they can, in the long run, lead to less traffic, cleaner air and healthier people. But the results aren’t all positive, especially in the short to medium term.