After disastrous wars in Chechnya and Afghanistan, Russia found it hard to recruit soldiers. But it has worked hard to rememdy this problem.

Jennifer Burrell, Professor, Anthropology, Latin American, Caribbean and US Latino Studies, University at Albany, State University of New York Sara Kendall, Reader (Associate Professor) in ...

Pakistani jets recently bombed the Omid Addiction Treatment Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, a facility with 2,000 beds dedicated to helping patients recover from drug addiction.

What does gentrification in Philadelphia look like? “High-rise, modern apartment buildings.” “(A) modern look that’s so out of place with our traditional row homes that ha ...

When the Trump administration took aim at higher education and the scientific research enterprise, a university dean had to figure out on the fly how to support scientists and their work at his school ...

But the new policy oversimplifies biological sex and risks unwitting discrimination against some female athletes.

Today’s basic income proponents say cash payments would be good for everyone. In the 1790s, the idea’s inventor argued something else: It was owed to everyone.

As a space lawyer puts it, a Moon base would come with strategic, economic and scientific advantages.

Siphelele Ngidi, Associate Researcher, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand Traders in the informal economy need a supportive ecosystem so they can move beyond ...

A first human H9N2 bird flu case in Europe has been detected in Italy. A virologist explains why the current risk is low and what to watch next.

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South Africa is facing an alarming increase in non-communicable diseases and related mortality. According to Statistics South Africa, deaths due to non-communicable diseases such as type 2 diabetes ...