In November of 1978, an observer in a Boston institution hurriedly scrawled down a short note that, unbeknownst to them, would eventually send waves through the research field of language development.

Black Americans are nearly twice as likely to have high blood pressure, diabetes, and heart disease than White Americans, and their life expectancy is about five years shorter. Why? In this special ...

Tudor Parfitt, the protagonist of the NOVA documentary "Lost Tribes of Israel," made a journey through southern Africa to study the unusual traditions of a black African tribe called the Lemba. This ...

The second problem that Tozzoli's team addressed concerned elevators. Ironically, while the invention of elevators had made skyscrapers possible, elevators were thought to limit how high skyscrapers ...

Recent stunning discoveries are exploding the myth of the Amazon as a primeval wilderness, revealing traces of ancient civilizations that flourished there for centuries. Dense settlements indicate ...

A new video podcast from GBH and the producers of NOVA, hosted by Hakeem Oluseyi. Should we bring back extinct species? Are we missing a fundamental law of nature? What can ancient fossils tell us ...

An electrical engineer works on Form Energy's 2022 battery module in the company's lab in Berkeley, California. Image courtesy of Form Energy Share Weirton, West Virginia has iron in its blood. The ...

Handwriting might be a lost art, but educators should make sure it lives on in the classroom. According to a new study , Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer of Princeton University and UCLA Los Angeles ...

Air pollution is an issue around the world, though its effects are not evenly distributed. Share What do a bag of potato chips thrown out in Manhattan, a lightbulb unwittingly tossed in Philadelphia, ...

The claustrum seems to act as a switchboard, telling different parts of the brain when to turn on and off. But what happens when the switchboard operator steps away? A brain scan from Fred Barrett's ...

Farmers preparing a field for the planting season outside Wonsan, North Korea, in the shadow of a denuded hillside. Share North Korea has been hiding something. Something beyond its prison camps, its ...

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