Hospitals and other health-care stakeholders are collecting vast stores of intimate data on consumers and patients. How can that information be used to improve health and reduce costs, while protecting patient privacy?

Throughout American history, young girls have worked in fields, factories and homes to provide for themselves and their families - and sacrificed their childhood. The same thing is still happening today.

A summary of social liberalism through the lens of political ideology.

As our understanding of the consequences of drug abuse has improved, so America’s relationship with drugs has changed. From Nixon to Trump, the so-called 'War on Drugs' has cost the US government billions – but will there ever be an end...

A nationwide head count of all those who live in the United States, the US Census takes place every ten years. It shows us how society constantly changes – but it also took decades of struggle for every person in America to count.

September 11, 2001 is a day etched into the memories of millions. Art around the world is being used to explore and understand.

NASA explores. From the far reaches of the cosmos, to right here at home, NASA scientists are uncovering new insights that provide economic and societal benefits to the U.S. and the world.
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What are Isotopes? Find out in this video from the Properties of Matter chapter.

Chris Dede is the Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. His fields of scholarship include emerging technologies, policy, and leadership. His funded research includes five...

Learn the basics about global warming as part of the environmental chemistry topic.

Many neuroscientists believe disorders of the mind will be solved when we understand the differences between the male and female brain. Yet is is frequently argued that men and women are not born but made. Are mental differences between...