Investment in child care yields countless social and economic returns

Children are born with a desire to learn about the world around them. Infants learn and…

Beyond Jupiter, researchers discover a 'cradle of comets'

Comets are known to have a temper. As they swoop in from the outer edges of…

Multifrequency observations shed more light on the nature of radio galaxy MRC 2011-298

Using Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (JVLA), astronomers have performed multifrequency radio observations of the…

Don't blame the teacher: Student results are (mostly) out of their hands

Teachers have very little to do with why some kids are better at school than others,…

Why a rocky planet with three suns has astronomers' attention

Planets that are even a little like Earth are hard to find. That’s why when astronomers…

Recommendations for creating a Department of Sustainability and Climate Change in NYC

In our second semester as graduate students in the Environmental Science and Policy program, we had…

Migrant strawberry pickers in Greece face deadly conditions

Each growing season, from October to May, as many as 12,000 undocumented Bangladeshi migrant men work…

Freshwater reserves under the sea

Research at Flinders University is investigating and locating vital freshwater hidden beneath the sea. …

Gray wolves are protected in Washington. So why does the state keep killing them?

Somewhere near this tiny farming town last month, a Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife hunter…

Rescuing the world's endangered river dolphins takes cutting edge science and community

River dolphins in the Amazon and Orinoco are under ever increasing pressure from the impact of…