Biden has outlined plans to ramp up COVID-19 testing in an effort to curb the spread of the omicron variant. Health experts reveal why testing is crucial.
As spiritualism’s popularity grows, photographer Shannon Taggart takes viewers inside the world of séances, mediums and orbs
Taggart’s images offer a lens through which to examine the role of spirituality in modern life. In an era defined by a global pandemic, heightened political division and the planetary threat of climate change is spiritualism due for a major resurgence?
Drop in students who come to the US to study could affect higher education and jobs
The pandemic has drastically changed international enrollment. Could a coordinated national approach help attract the world’s brightest minds to the U.S.?
Future of college will involve fewer professors
Educational technology reseacher sees three trends that shrink the role of traditional college professors: Rise of AI, erosion of tenure, and flipped classrooms.
Cities worldwide aren’t adapting to climate change quickly enough
Remaking cities worldwide to deal with extreme weather events and new climate regimes will require massive investments in new ideas, practices, and skills.
Viruses are both the villains and heroes of life as we know it
Viruses are arguably nature’s powerhouses for genetic innovation. Humans are likely here today because of them.
How to make comparing prices of an MRI or colonoscopy as easy as shopping for a new laptop
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that almost 33 cents of every dollar spent on health care in the U.S. goes to hospitals – and that’s excluding what your doctor bills you separately. But hospital pricing isn’t just expensive. It’s also murky.
Nursing home residents and staff are traumatized from the pandemic—collaborative care can help with recovery
Isolation, emotional neglect, and fear of life-threatening disease may bring up past traumas for caregivers to manage, cautions social work professor.
Taxing bachelors and proposing marriage lotteries – how superpowers addressed declining birthrates in the past
A historian reflects on how governments and societies have traditionally responded to low marriage and birthrates with various persuasion techniques.
As Urban Life Resumes, Can US Cities Avert Gridlock?
The pandemic gave Americans a tantalizing glimpse of what less car-oriented cities would look like. But what happens if cities just return to “normal”?