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Delhi — where most people don't have AC — hits 120 degrees in South Asian heat wave

What's it like to try to survive 120-degree heat, without air conditioning? Here's how people are coping in the heart of Delhi.

As the planet heats up, Greenland's ice sheet is pouring more meltwater into the Atlantic. Scientists are tracking whether this could cause a collapse in a crucial ocean current.

Why it's so important to figure out when a vital Atlantic Ocean current might collapse

Scientists know a current in the Atlantic Ocean could collapse suddenly as the climate changes. The question of when matters to billions of people around the globe.

A group of students at the University of Minnesota celebrate their induction into medical school. The U.S. has disproportionately few Black and Hispanic doctors. Some of the barriers to entering the profession start before even getting in to medical school, recent research finds, including financial pressures and racism.

Diversity in medicine can save lives. Here's why there aren't more doctors of color

The U.S. desperately needs more Black and Hispanic doctors, research shows. But financial pressures and discrimination can keep young people from even applying to med school.

Travelers walk through the snow into Terminal 1 Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022 at the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport in Minneapolis.

Wild winter weather brings drastic temperature drops within minutes across the U.S.

Just as travel returns to pre-pandemic levels, an arctic front in the Midwest and and record-breaking cold temperatures along the Gulf Coast and in the Eastern U.S. could bring dangerous conditions.

An iceberg in Ilulissat, Greenland. Ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are melting rapidly, and that melt will accelerate as the Earth heats up.

It could get a lot worse: 3 dangerous tipping points the climate is approaching

Global leaders are negotiating about how to cut greenhouse gas emissions as quickly as possible. Scientists say every passing day, and every tenth of a degree, makes a big difference.

A Chinese worker's vision of "white people food" includes raw veggies, crackers, lunch meat and raspberries. This kind of pared-down, easy-to-prepare meal is catching on among office workers in China's cities.

This is not a joke: Chinese people are eating — and poking fun at — #whitepeoplefood

The playful term is trending on social media: Urban workers are embracing (even while joking about) easy-to-fix, healthy Western-style lunches — think sandwiches, veggies ... a lonely baked potato.

<em>Here Lies Love</em> tells the story of Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos' rise and fall in the Philippines. The $22 million immersive musical production is a big Broadway gamble.

You can immerse yourself — literally — in this Broadway show

Here Lies Love tells the story of Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos' rise and fall in the Philippines. The $22 million immersive musical production is a big Broadway gamble.

A candlelight vigil for Tyre Nichols in Memphis is held in January.

A judge blocks the release of additional footage of the beating death of Tyre Nichols

The 20-some hours of video and audio footage were set to be released Wednesday alongside other documents from the city's investigation into the officers involved in the 29-year-old Black man's death.

Jerry Joyce holds a conversation in the president's office of San Diego's Salk Institute. He'll become a fixture in the office when he takes over as president next month. March 7, 2023.

Salk Institute’s new president to tackle ‘endless frontier’ of science

Biologist Gerald “Jerry” Joyce takes over as Salk president next month with the task of expanding the campus and answering the question: what’s next?

100 years of Black film history

Cinema Junkie chronicles a century of Black cinema, from silent films to superheroes and beyond.

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