What’s Behind the Rising Popularity of Germany’s Far Right?
The recent electoral success of the ultra-conservative AfD has experts trying to discover what's behind the shift to the right.
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How ‘Fingerprinting’ the Ocean Could Help Future Hurricane Preparedness
Scientists are using satellites to identify where increasing sea levels could result in the most destructive storm surge as hurricanes grow more powerful due to climate change.
What Happens When a Suburb Begins to Die?
For older, inner-ring suburbs in the Northeast and Midwest, the best hope often lies in merging with the city.
Facial Recognition: Are We Born With It?
Do we get our cognitive abilities from our inherited "nature" or from our environment's "nurture?"
The Kung Fu Nuns Teaching Self-Defense in the Himalayas
Nuns from the Drukpa lineage of Buddhism are known for their strength, athletic ability, and humanitarian relief work.
After Irma, Puerto Rico’s Case for Statehood Gains Newfound Urgency
The deepening humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico reveals a disaster response that is categorically different from the actions taken in the wake of hurricanes that struck the continental U.S. recently.
China’s Refusal of North Korean Defectors Is Enabling a Growing Human Rights Crisis
Amid international attention on Pyongyang's missile tests, there is another life-threatening crisis emanating from North Korea that few are watching.
Baltimore Tenants File a Class Action Against a Jared Kushner-Owned Property Management Firm
Tenants allege that a property management firm controlled by Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner's real-estate company has unjustly charged them fees and threatened eviction to make them pay up.
Water Contamination in Coachella Valley Is Pushing Its Mobile Home Communities Into a Corner
A sprawl of mobile home parks house 10,000 people in Southern California's Coachella Valley, but their drinking water is chronically contaminated. Now some solutions are in sight.
Manipulating Microbes May Be a Key to the Future of Restorative Health
Rather than a single bacterial magic bullet, imagine instead a future that involves microbial concoctions tailor-made to your microbiome fingerprint to help restore equilibrium.