Since decoding the “waggle dance” in the 1940s, bees have been at the forefront of research into insect intellect. A new study shows that bees can be trained to understand the dot-dash behavior of ...

How can we fix American democracy? Preserving our democracy is as urgent a task as ever, but the question is how. Democracy is getting to be one of those words that, at least in our day-to-day ...

U ndergraduate writing programs introduce college students to the rhetorical and argumentative structures they will be expected to master during their four years on campus and beyond. Learning the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It continues with an explanation on obfuscation within the Java Edition: "For a long time, Java ...

Inside View: Ignore the haters pushing a revisionist history, and recognize the American experiment for the success that it is. Donald Trump’s supporters are feeling satisfaction after two astonishing ...

From congressional calls to protests, ACLU experts explain what actions actually work to hold the Trump administration accountable and protect democracy. In his first 9 months back in office, ...

Imagine the impact of climate change is irreversible, and decades of flooding, famine, pandemics and war have upended life on earth. That world is explored in Ian McEwan's new novel, “What We Can Know ...

North Korea vice foreign minister says demands to give up nuclear program tantamount to asking it to surrender sovereignty First official sent from North Korea to address high-level UN General ...

This is the first installment of a new column by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò. It appears in our current print issue; subscribe to get a copy. In 1962, eminent philosopher Bertrand Russell received a series of ...

Abstract: We present Mizu, a threaded-code interpreter for an assembly-like language designed to be embedded inside compilers. Mizu has three primary goals: to be lightweight, portable, and extensible ...

With dystopian fiction a firm fixture in our literary landscape, it’s easy to imagine future English syllabi that include, from this decade alone, works by Ali Smith, Paul Lynch, and Stephen Markley.