Inequality

Mathematicians are working on ways to use their field to tackle major social issues, such as social inequality and the need for gender equity

Floods, wildfires, droughts and earthquakes forced more than 26 million people to leave their homes in 2023

Famine is affecting an increasing number of people in Gaza, Sudan, Haiti and elsewhere around the globe, and its development follows a clear pattern

Black nurses worked through unsanitary conditions and racial prejudice to help patients through the debilitating disease TB before a cure was found—with their help

U.S. police embraced frequent “consent” searches of motorists during the “tough on crime” era. These searches, meant to sidestep privacy rights, are both racially misapplied and ineffective

Reluctance to talk about bathroom breaks can make fieldwork uncomfortable and even dangerous. Some scientists want that to change

Universities need to train their faculty to be better mentors to students of color, and to understand these students’ vulnerabilities

The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara peoples are learning more about the missiles siloed on their lands, and that knowledge has put the preservation of their culture and heritage in even starker relief.

The missiles on the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota make it a potential target for a nuclear attack. And that doesn’t come close to describing what the reality would be for those on the ground.

A new study has found that the use of AI tools such as ChatGPT in the workplace entrenches biased language based on gender

The Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota has had nuclear missile silos on its land for decades. Now the U.S. government wants to take the old weapons out and replace them with new ones, and it’s unclear how many living there know about that.

15 nuclear missiles deployed in underground concrete silos across the Fort Berthold reservation in North Dakota. It took displacement and flood to get them there.