As federal funding for infrastructure rolls in, communities run the risk of spending millions of dollars on systems that aren’t built to handle the flood risks ahead.

President Sally Kornbluth talks with Associate Professor Mai Hassan about public administration in Africa and how people mobilize against repressive regimes.

Biomolecular archaeology reveals a fuller picture of the Xiongnu people, the world’s first nomadic empire.

In Kenya, property rights are granted more often by democratic regimes than by autocrats — but decisions tend to be politically motivated regardless of who’s in charge.

Fake seeds can cost farmers more than two-thirds of expected crop yields and threaten food security. Trackable silk labels could help.

Project will develop new materials characterization tools and technologies to assign unique identifiers to individual pearls.

Following the controversial births of the first gene-edited babies, a major focus of the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing was responsible use of CRISPR.

Developed at SMART, the nondestructive nanosensors could have wide applications in agricultural science.

A handful of wealthy states have so far monopolised the benefits of exploring the remote ocean.

Over 50 fire ecologists across the Western U.S. took an unprecedented look at how forests in thousands of locations are recovering from fire in a changing climate. The results were alarming.