For years, international mining companies have extracted raw cobalt from communities and villages across the DRC and ...

So many people avoid reading news they expect to be depressing. But checking in with established journalists might just help ...

So much information bombards us. But to sort it all out we can turn to ethical journalists and reliable news sites.

The world's most prestigious prize is awarded each year for efforts towards world peace. But figuring out who gets it? That's cause for strife.

After massive floods in Valencia, fake news messages on the internet seemed targeted to intensify chaos and undermine trust in the authorities. A mud-covered car in a garage destroyed by floods in ...

It was the best of times and the worst of times. The 1960s stirred so many hopes — utopia was within reach! — only to see many crushed. The lessons? This post script ends our series of articles by ...

The global toy industry has a plastics predicament: How to feed children’s appetite for new toys, keep prices low and not harm the Earth in the process. Plastic is omnipresent in our lives and few ...

Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Albania, Mother Teresa embodied many qualities that are held sacred in the Catholic Church — charity, humility, devotion — and she won the Nobel Peace Prize along with ...

Much of the news people consume is produced by newswires. Their reporters keep their opinions to themselves so you can make up your own mind about world events. A microphone from a reporter from the ...

An invisible glue holding the universe together and launching telescopes into orbit: Those ideas came from women who elbowed their way into astronomy. At the end of August, NASA will launch a ...

If a child is old enough to learn to read, it’s time to teach them to be media literate. But how to implement that in schools takes some problem solving skills. A teen shrugs at the difference between ...

The Olympics are the pinnacle of an athletic career. But after athletes step off the podium a deeper challenge awaits. Who are they when the uniforms come off? Olympic rower Christine Roper (frontside ...