Science

A new study from the University of Eastern Finland gives prisoners in Finland a voice in the current sustainability transformation debate, showing that their perceptions of sustainable development vary greatly, ranging from individual everyday actions to global environmental issues.

Seeing a person huddled under a makeshift roof of tarps or curled up on a warm grate can evoke powerful emotions and questions.

Despite decades of progress, the gender pay gap remains a persistent feature of the UK labor market. According to women’s rights charity the Fawcett Society, November 22 marked Equal Pay Day 2025—the day when women effectively stop getting paid due…

Across state legislatures and in Congress, debates are intensifying about the value of funding certain college degree programs—and higher education, more broadly.

School violence is a global public health phenomenon. This is when learners and teachers are the victims of physical and psychological abuse, cyber threats and bullying, fights, gangsterism, and the use of weapons at school.

The NASA gamma-ray spacecraft Fermi may have enabled scientists to “see” dark matter, the universe’s most mysterious stuff, for the first time.

In a re-evaluation of Hockett’s foundational features that have long dominated linguistic theory—concepts like “arbitrariness,” “duality of patterning,” and “displacement”—an international team of linguists and cognitive scientists shows that modern science demands a radical shift in how we understand language…

In recent years, right-wing populist parties have experienced significant political success across nearly all Western democracies. With their increasing political establishment, xenophobic attitudes have become normalized. While previous studies have primarily examined the effects of this development on voting behavior,…

US media and politicians often celebrate beautiful stories of immigrants arriving in America, finding a new home, and thriving in the land of opportunity.