In September 2015, thousands of women tea pickers went on strike at one of India’s biggest tea producers. They had picked more tea than ever that year but were furious that wages remained low and ...

Ahead of the Oct 6 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, we take a look back at UCSF's Nobel laueretes, their discoveries, ...

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A 3,000-year-old metal workshop in southern Georgia may hold the key to one of the most important turning points in human ...

In 1989, Sir Tim revolutionized the online world. Today, in the era of misinformation, addictive algorithms, and extractive ...

The Nobel Prize is one of the most prestigious awards a person can earn. Among its many recipients, it is an honor won by chemists, physicists, and authors who have contributed vast amounts of ...

Ginny Casey recently opened "The Opposite of Hollow" her solo debut with Los Angeles's Megan Mulrooney. Here she discusses her influences.

Marilynne Robinson, a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and recipient of a National Humanities Medal, is one of the world’s great ...

The human capacity for invention and discovery is a remarkable phenomenon that has shaped the course of history.It is as if humans are driven by an innate desire to improve their lives and the world ...

Einstein’s uncle Jakob was an inventor in Munich. He produced patents for arc lamps, electric meters, and dynamos in the late ...