Uterus transplants are becoming more common, opening up the possibility of pregnancy and parenthood to people with certain ...

Cecilia Menjívar is a professor of sociology and Dorothy L. Meier Social Equities Chair at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on manifestations of state violence and power ...

Deisy Del Real is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Southern California. Her award-winning research examines how emerging authoritarianism impacts forced migrants’ livelihoods ...

The new interconnected breed of autocrats gains and retains power by deception, globally undermining democracies through ...

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Happy Monday, listeners! Let’s kick off the week by catching up on the latest science news. For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. First up we’ve got an update on Butch Wilmore ...

In a problem that entertained the strollers of an East Prussian city the great mathematician saw an important principle of the branch of mathematics called topology ...

The missing number is 1,620. The digits in the tens places (green in the figure below) of the numbers in columns 1, 2, 4 and 5 are added together. The total value is represented by the digits in the ...

A strange sound dubbed “biotwang” was first heard bouncing around the Mariana Trench 10 years ago, and scientists have ...

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“One thing that this article is showing is that we are very seasonal creatures,” says Georgetown University School of ...

You might think of asteroids as just rocks of various sizes floating around in space. But they’re vastly more complex than ...