Women and men doing yoga in a studio

Balancing yoga traditions with modern wellness requires flexibility

Sept. 20, 2024

Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê scholar Loriliai Biernacki reflects on the differences between ancient yoga and yoga as it’s practiced today during Yoga Awareness Month.

Man looking at photos of people disappeared in Nepal's civil war

Pursuing long-awaited justice for victims of Nepal's 'People's War'

Sept. 20, 2024

Nepal’s revamped truth commissions will need to go beyond ‘ritualism’ to deliver justice to civil war victims.

Mexican American women working on farm in Texas in 1939

New research quantifies effects of lynchings of Mexicans and Mexican Americans on the wider community

Sept. 20, 2024

Study by economists is thought to be the first to quantitively estimate the effects of racial terror against Mexicans in the U.S. on U.S.-born Mexican Americans.

Memorial wall with photos of war victims in Ukraine

Amid growing war fatigue, some Ukrainians more willing to cede land

Sept. 19, 2024

Growing number of war-weary Ukrainians would reluctantly give up territory to save lives, suggests recent survey.

white-shouldered bumblebee on yellow goldenbanner flower

Studying complex networks of plants and pollinators

Sept. 11, 2024

I’ve visited the same Rocky Mountain subalpine meadow weekly for a decade of summers looking at plant-pollinator interactions—here’s what I learned

herd of horses walking through stream

Rewriting the story of horse domestication

Sept. 3, 2024

Domesticating horses had a huge impact on human society—new science rewrites where and when it first happened.

Uncompahgre Wilderness in Colorado's San Juan Mountains

The Wilderness Act turns 60

Sept. 3, 2024

Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê’s Paul S. Sutter looks back on the history of the Wilderness Act as it approaches its diamond jubilee.

White-lined hovering moth

Sphinx moth caterpillars wield an eruptive defense

Aug. 29, 2024

Sphinx months have an array of identifiers, one being an unusual defense mechanism.

Red exit sign in Hindi and English

From harmony to civil war: when language turns deadly

Aug. 26, 2024

Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê political scientist Jaroslav Tir argues it’s not just what a government says about its ethnic minorities, but also the language it uses that can be threatening.

Núria Silleras-Fernández and book cover

For medieval Iberian queens, love was a dangerous sickness

Aug. 13, 2024

In a newly published history of the region’s female monarchs, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê scholar shows the connections between love, grief and madness.

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