Fifty years ago, I was a young teacher in the quiet farm town of Hatfield, Massachusetts. Across the Connecticut River, the towers of UMass stood tall against the horizon. On that campus, student ...

The killing of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, was a seismic event, a turning point that compelled many Americans to do something and do it with urgency. Many educators responded by holding mandatory ...

Carol Miranda paid a surgeon in Los Angeles thousands of dollars last year to permanently change her eye color from dark brown to hazel. Miranda, a now 49-year-old sales associate, had dreamed since ...

Of course, the breakthrough isn't nearly as miraculous as bringing someone back to life would be. But it is an intriguing step for science. The scientists were able to prove that photosensitive neuron ...

Usama has a passion for video games and a talent for capturing their magic in writing. He brings games to life with his words, and he's been fascinated by games for as long as he's had a joystick in ...

Today’s heated arguments about critical race theory shouldn’t surprise us because they aren’t new. Indeed, one of the best-known classroom experiments to combat racism remains a divisive subject more ...

What determines the shade of your peepers? Experts weigh in on the rarest eye color in the world—and the genetics behind it. It’s said that our eyes are the mirrors of our souls, so it makes sense ...

"The eyes are the window to the soul," notes a timeless quote. And while your eyes also bring the world your way, the origins of eye color are fascinating and even mysterious. To help lay out the ...

Do you have dark brown hair and brown eyes? Then you have something in common with most people around the globe. According to the World Atlas, about 90% of the global population has dark brown or ...

Helen Rowe receives an Australian Government Research Training Program Stipend Scholarship. She undertakes projects as an independent consultant occasionally alongside her doctoral research, mainly ...