Social Justice Those Gruesome Photos on Cigarette Packs Probably Work Seventy-seven countries require them, but not the United States. Francie Diep
Social Justice Doctors Seem to Schedule Births So They Can Make It Home for Dinner And that's not necessarily a bad thing. Francie Diep
Environment How Does a Drought Feel to a Tree? Having less water affects trees' carbon intake, sap production, and more. Francie Diep
Economics How the Internet Has Made Wildlife Smuggling a ‘Low-Risk Activity’ Smugglers are using sites like eBay and Etsy to sell their animal captives. Francie Diep
Economics What Being a Multimillionaire Can Buy You Political influence, scientific research programs, and big data, oh my. Francie Diep
Education Does More Education Make People Wealthier? A new report suggests a strong correlation between education and wealth, but not-so-strong causation. Francie Diep
Economics How Americans’ Views of McDonald’s Changed Over the Years Researchers have long documented problems with McDonald's, but it wasn't until they began showing how the restaurants aimed at children and made people overweight that the American public paid attention. Francie Diep
Environment How Social Media Can Help Natural-Disaster Victims It's a lot of information overload, but there's some useful stuff in there too. Francie Diep
Environment We Can Now Detect Earthquakes From Space—and Maybe Venusquakes Too Quakes may offer scientific clues about planets' interiors. Francie Diep
Social Justice You Don’t Actually Need to Bury the Dead Immediately After an Earthquake In fact, it may be healthy not to. Francie Diep