A new book follows Lyman Beecher, his boundary-pushing children, and their grand ambitions to improve the world.

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Italy is holding a citizenship referendum and it's proving so divisive that some, including the prime minister, are ...

Marshall Islands locals watched radioactive coral fall from the sky for hours after the US’s bomb tests, 71 years ago. Now ...

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The first settlers arrived at Ireland’s coasts in 8000 BC, but the potato only arrived in Europe some 400 years ago. So what was the ancient Irish diet? This is Ireland's food history.

As Australian cities heat up, street trees are needed more than ever for their cooling. It turns out many are more resilient ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A white college professor has resigned less than a week after confessing that she has been masquerading as Black for years. In an article on the website Medium published on ...

Of course, I didn’t need any studies to tell me how bad things are with Gen-Z: As a Black, tenured professor at a private university in New York and a hardworking, independent member of Gen-X, I ...

King James Britt, a long-time composer, producer, and performer, is part of the Juneteenth Jubilee celebration at the San Diego Central Library June 14 ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, when many classes were held via Zoom, one young man showed up on camera shirtless and reclining in his bed. I had to send him a private message to put a shirt on.