It will be years until NASA is ready for a journey to the red planet, but if Earth continues to suffer from climate change, Mars could come to us. On Mars, we’ll all farm underground. Our crops will ...

Terese Marie Mailhot interviews Alicia Elliott and Arielle Twist about some recent triumphs in Indigenous literature—and about other triumphs still to come. Both authors chatted with Pacific Standard ...

Some local governments are hoping that, once dollar stores are banned, grocery stores will come to food deserts. In northeast Oklahoma City, you can find plenty of stores that sell groceries, but only ...

The day after Earth Day at the New York Botanical Garden was one of those spring stunners when half the city had come out to get their nature fix after a long, gray winter. Couples lolled on the lawns ...

They won’t be lost to fire, like much of the Universal Music catalog, but who will save the mixtapes? In 2008, a 24-hour inferno ripped through a Universal Studios backlot, incinerating a massive ...

The make-up of the country’s undocumented population is changing. Can white Americans’ preconceived notions keep up? The undocumented immigrant population in the United States has been changing for a ...

Amid attacks on several food security programs from the Trump administration, this proposed change could ignite yet another debate about where we draw the line. The federal poverty line is a relic.

Research has found that migrants and refugees don’t spread diseases to host populations, though migrants themselves are often at higher risk of illness because of poor living conditions. One of the ...

In low, pharmaceutical-grade doses, meth may actually repair and protect the brain in certain circumstances. D-methamphetamine is what generally appears on the street—although it’s often cut with ...

As young people read less and less, they may be short-circuiting their reading brains. They are bright, innovative, confident in their skills on all manner of digital screens and devices: This is ...

The congresswoman-elect connects with young voters, promoting progressive positions while chopping peppers and making noodles. In all cases, Ocasio-Cortez leveraged her social media skills to perform ...

In September of 1999, North Carolina found itself facing a foul problem. As Hurricane Floyd battered the coast, floodwaters breached lagoons of animal waste from the state’s industrial hog farms, ...