A study conducted at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has successfully shown that human stem cells can implant themselves into the brain and heal neurological problems. The experiment was conducted using mice, and it showed that impl…

On a visit to Thimphu, the capital of Bhutan, I found myself sitting across from a man named Karma Ura, spilling my guts. Maybe it was the fact that he was named Karma, or the thin air, or the way travel melts my defences, but I decided to confess …

 Native Hawaiians make up about one-quarter of the state’s population, but about 40 percent of the state’s inmates and those on parole. A task force that spent a year studying ways to reduce the number of Native Hawaiians in the criminal just…

If students can only focus for 15-minute intervals, shouldn’t we devote precious class time to something more engaging?   Each school day, millions of students move in unison from classroom to classroom where they listen to 50- to 90-minute lectu…