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Pistols for sale at Target Masters in Garland, Texas in 2017

Researchers Tackle Gun Violence Despite Lack of Federal Funding

Despite a federal ban on funding the study of gun violence, researchers have published hundreds of studies in recent years exploring risk factors and solutions to the problem.

Brittany Williams, a doctoral candidate at the University of Georgia, started taking Truvada when she began dating a man living with HIV. Even though the relationship ended, she continues to take it.

To Halt HIV, Advocates Push For PrEP Outreach To Black Women

After gay and bisexual men, black women are the group at highest risk for HIV transmission. Here's how women are teaching each other about the most effective ways to prevent infection.

Maggie Feldman-Piltch, left, founder of #NatSecGirlSquad, and Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in 2017 at the Aspen Security Forum, in Aspen, Colo.

Women In National Security Push To Move Beyond 'The First' And 'The Only'

For years, women have fought for inclusion in the high-stakes world of national security. Now, they say, the effort to build a pipeline of qualified women leaders is paying off.

Mohsin Hamid's 'Exit West' Wins First-Ever Aspen Words Literary Prize

His magical realist novel on the lives of refugees "hints at possibilities for doing better," judges said. And it won him the prize, which recognizes fiction tackling today's thorniest social issues.

Two years into the #MeToo movement, as focus grows on when — and if — it's appropriate for men ousted for sexual harassment to return to work, attention is also shifting to underlying questions of rehabilitation. Can sexual harassers change? And if so, how?

Growing Efforts Are Looking At How — Or If — #MeToo Offenders Can Be Reformed

As a growing number of men brought down by the #MeToo movement attempt comebacks, a burgeoning industry of therapists, coaches and counselors is trying to help reform offenders.

Molecular biologist Lydia Villa-Komaroff in an undated photo.

Mexican-American Biologist Speaks On Science's Continued Diversity Problem

Dr. Lydia Villa-Komaroff was one of the first Mexican-American women to get a Ph.D. in science. She helped discover how to make synthetic insulin in 1978.

The End Of The World Ought To Be The Start Of The Story In 'Oval'

Elvia Wilk's new novel follows a group of aimless young people in Berlin, working, going out, coming home — until something happens that brings about a cataclysm. But is the aimlessness intentional?

In 'Head On,' Killer Robots, Dogged Gumshoes ... And A Very Important Cat

John Scalzi returns to the world of Lock In — where people incapacitated by a strange disease can re-enter the world through robot avatars — for a murder mystery that turns on a cat named Donut.

Lettuce sprouts amid rows of plastic covering the ground at One Straw Farm, an organic operation north of Baltimore. Although conventional farmers also use plastic mulch, organic produce farms like One Straw rely on the material even more because they must avoid chemical weed killers, which are banned in organic farming.

Organic Farming Has A Plastic Problem. One Solution Is Controversial

Many organic farmers rely on plastic as a form of mulch, but it ends up in landfills. Biodegradable plastic could help, but some worry about its long-term effects on soil health and the environment.

Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter, center, wearing red tie, leaves court in San Diego, Monday, Dec. 3, 2018.

What Will Happen If Congressman Duncan Hunter Is Convicted?

A federal judge, prosecutors and defense attorneys for Republican representative Duncan Hunter and his wife Margaret agreed to a September 10, 2019 court date.

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