What happened to Biden's free college plan? Cutting cost of higher ed out of Feds' reach

President Joe Biden’s plan for mass student loan debt relief may be a bust, but the…

China's zero-COVID 'volunteers' have suffered from stress and anxiety, study shows

“Volunteers” tasked with enforcing the Chinese Communist Party’s zero-COVID policies have suffered from stress and anxiety,…

Bottle with a message: Story writing connects children to the environment

Researchers used story-writing to explore schoolchildren’s perceptions of marine plastic litter and the effects on their…

Historic biodiversity pact inspires, but past failures loom

A day after negotiators reached a landmark biodiversity agreement, the pressure was already growing on countries,…

Researchers develop new identification device for heavy-ion particles

A scientific team at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University (MSU)…

Design review for ngVLA antenna clears way for prototype construction

The design for the Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) prototype antenna has passed an intensive,…

'Gray leisure' skateboarding represents both pollution and sustainability

Skateboarding is a “polluted” leisure activity which both harms the environment and boosts sustainability, a new…

New study shows scientists improve communication, education skills after working with teachers

Every summer from 2012 to 2016, Bruce MacFadden and a team of scientists accompanied K-12 teachers…

Growing incomes boost Latinx millennials' purchasing power

Millennial age groups—born mid 1980s to early 2000s—now have more money at hand than they have…

Europe gripped by worst ever bird flu outbreak: EU

Europe has been gripped by its “most devastating” ever outbreak of bird flu in the past…