Data collected from 35 American cities showed a 21% decrease in the homicide rate from 2024 to 2025, translating to about 922 fewer homicides last year, according to a new report from the independent ...

Speaking with FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney, Steven Durlauf, Director of the Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy, ...

The Environmental Protection Agency has stopped estimating the dollar value of lives saved in the cost-benefit analyses for new pollution rules. Los Angeles smog in 1979. For decades, government ...

Chinese crackdowns on chemicals used to make illicit fentanyl may have played a significant role in the sharp reduction of U.S. overdose deaths, according to research published Thursday. The paper ...

A co-creator of the Google Earth platform has given, along with his wife, a $4 million gift to the University of Kansas to help find and create the next generation of software engineers. Beth Ellyn ...

Allowing our political discourse to be swallowed up by the internet and spit back out as chewed-up, attention-grabbing “content” has obviously not been good for the American psyche. Unfortunately, in ...

Gold has been surging. Risky assets (with a few minor hiccups) have also been surging. And yet, central bankers (most notably the Fed) are in rate cutting mode. Why is this? And what kind of risks are ...

W e write as scholars of academic freedom to respond to the proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” We are politically diverse and do not share common views about the wisdom of ...

The University of Pittsburgh is launching a Doctor of Chiropractic program -- the first at a major academic research center -- raising some eyebrows in mainstream medicine. The program will be part of ...

The 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize for Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to three researchers who have shown how technological and scientific innovation, coupled to market ...

Editor’s note: This is Part 2 of a two-part series on crime solutions from Katie Hill and Jens Ludwig of the University of Chicago Crime Lab. Read Part 1 here. Some of our fellow Chicagoans have come ...

Somiya Adrees is a writer at GameRant. Her gaming journey began at a young age with classics like Super Mario Bros., Sonic the Hedgehog, and Disney's Aladdin in Nasira's Revenge (all of which she ...