Plea bargains. Bench trials. Pleading the Fifth. Law students—and anyone who has seen Law and Order—will recognize these as familiar features of the US criminal justice system. But, as Emma Kaufman ...

How do new or even “radical” ideas become part of the body politic? The Overton Window provides a way of better way of helping us understand how things change.

Territorial markets hold significant promise for improving Africa’s food systems. They are deeply connected to local economies, support smallholder farmers, and preserve traditional food cultures.

A closer look at the planets around a star called LHS 1903 may just flip our understanding of how planetary systems form. Reading time 3 minutes Astronomers have discovered a star system that’s out of ...

Like a double-stuffed Oreo of planetary proportions, the star LHS 1903 boasts two rocky exoplanets sandwiching two gaseous ones. From the star outward, the lineup — rocky-gaseous-gaseous-rocky — ...

Our familiar, archetypal solar system has warm, rocky worlds like Mercury and Earth orbiting close to their star and gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn sprawled out in more distant orbits. Researchers ...

One of the best parts of the Olympics is that every couple of years, you end up watching a sport you aren’t very familiar with -- one that isn’t typically televised. Every four years, when the Winter ...

An international collaboration of astrophysicists that includes researchers from Yale has created and tested a detection system that uses gravitational waves to map out the locations of merging black ...

Snowflake (SNOW) has released Semantic View Autopilot, an artificial intelligence-powered service that automates the creation and governance of semantic views, giving agents a shared understanding of ...