Science

Milk is one of the most familiar things in the world—comforting, wholesome, ordinary. But beneath this common perception lies something far more complicated.

Dr. Nicholas Kessler and his colleagues examined the largest known marker post from the ancient North American city of Cahokia. Their study is published in PLOS One.

An anthropologist from The University of Manchester has uncovered the hidden struggles of young men on the edges of Nairobi, who inherit land but lack the means to turn it into the financial security they desperately need.

Children sometimes misbehave at school for a variety of reasons. But new research from the University of Mississippi sheds light on how exposure to violence outside of school may lead some children to act out in the classroom.

Sports are a massive—and growing—economic force in the United States and around the globe, opening new opportunities for careers.

Grassroots logistics networks provided food and essential goods to New Yorkers who fell through the cracks of conventional supply chains during the COVID-19 pandemic, offering important lessons for engineers designing the next generation of distribution technologies, according to new research…

An interdisciplinary team of researchers has developed a novel research model to enhance investigations conducted at the intersection of religion and medicine.

For most people, Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) is simply a niche fantasy table-top game. But around tables cluttered with dice, maps and character sheets, players are doing far more than playing. They’re engaging in leisure. Serious leisure, to be exact.…

In postwar America, as suburbs spread and federal social welfare programs expanded, one underexamined building type quietly became a fixture of the American health care landscape: the nursing home.

Scientists have uncovered a toxic alliance between Aβ and fibrinogen that may explain how Alzheimer’s disease begins. The two proteins together create stubborn clots that damage blood vessels and spark inflammation in the brain. These effects appear even at very…