UnDisciplined

The OSIRIS-Rex mission has picked up a piece of the asteroid Bennu projected to pass close to Earth. Precautionary? Maybe. But there's a big enough risk that we're doing something about it.

85% of deaf children attend mainstream public schools and many deaf advocates will say this is a good thing, but good intentions and good educational practices are two different things.

Romeo and Juliet has always been about life in a pandemic, we're just starting to notice it.

Ira Hayes has been commemorated in movies and songs, but his actual life after WWII is still shrouded in a lot of mystery.

There is no national strategy, let alone a global one to mitigate the dangers of diseases that spread from animals to humans.

There are many ways Latino people and cultures have influenced the country. Some linguists say that an entirely new American dialect is taking shape right now, in Miami.

In American history, women have largely been left out of newsrooms, so how has that changed history?

When you think about a beehive, you probably imagine the queen as the leader. But that's not actually how it works.

We still need to figure out better long term water solutions. And those discussions tend to happen with more urgency when water is scarce.

One of the places the world is warming the most is in our cities, as a result of the urban heat island effect. But there’s a way to combat this problem.

Climate scientists are now looking at rivers and streams. And what they're finding is that these parts of our world are warming rapidly.

In a rapidly warming world, hot sex just took on a whole new meaning.

If you've ever had writer's block then you know how desperate that experience can be. What you might not realize is that you're in very good company.

Scientists and journalists have been trying to shock people with the overwhelming weight of evidence that our planet is warming. Now perhaps a new tactic is in order – optimism for the future.

Our healthcare systems are designed to help people once they have a disease – not to keep them from getting sick in the first place.

Redlining has been illegal for 50 years, but the negative effects reverberate today. Redlined communities are more at risk under climate change.

During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic there was an explosive rise in opioid deaths.

A very wet winter changed things and in most parts of the West, the drought seems to be over. That gives us a little bit of time to keep working on solutions to water availability.

The profound decline in whale populations doesn't just change our ocean ecosystems – it might also be impacting our atmospheric climate.

A variety of studies have shown that, by the second grade, about 75 percent of girls have already developed an implicit belief that science, math and engineering are subjects that belong more to boys.

There are some ways in which this latest cycle of censorship is different, and perhaps even more alarming.

Climate change isn't just making our world incrementally warmer – its impacts are making us sicker, both physically and mentally.

When the EPA told people in Globe, Arizona, that their soil was toxic and needed to be cleaned up, many residents responded in a surprising way.

Almost everyone these days seems to agree that political discourse in this country has gotten too heated – a group based in Utah created a tool to try and change that.

Our attention spans have been significantly changed by the digital devices that surround us, but there's things we can do to help that.