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We all knew to expect hot flashes, maybe even some prostate issues. But nobody ever warned us about these aging-related things: 1. You will want to nap more. Naps, it turns out, aren't just for cranky toddlers. It is popularly believed that our need for them returns, in earnest, in our later years. But while you may feel the need to sleep through the NFL game on TV every Sunday, that's...

Beer and neuroscience -- an unlikely combination, you might think, for anything other than a collegiate shooting the breeze over drinks. But in my field of study -- olfaction -- they can be tightly intertwined. I work to uncover the neural mechanisms of how we learn about a new odor. The parallels between olfactory research and beer start with some basics: They have overlapping chemistry...

Across the globe, 805 million people are struggling with hunger. But that figure could be significantly reduced if female farmers just had the same rights as their male counterparts. Now that more men in rural areas are taking jobs in cities, about half of all farmers are women who produce more than half the world's food, according to World Watch. Yet, despite their increasing roles, women farmers are often deprived...

"The Jerome Project" began in 2011, when artist Titus Kaphar was researching his father Jerome's prison records. Kaphar, who was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and currently lives between New York and Connecticut, creates artwork that, both aesthetically and thematically, sews together past and present in a rough and sometimes violent reworking of history. When looking into his father's history,...

Woodblock printing and the innovation known as moveable type have their origins in China. Around 600 AD block prints appeared on the scene, perfected on paper toward the end of the Tang dynasty. You could say, then, that the Chinese innovators of the seventh to 10th centuries were some of the world's earliest typography masters. Twenty-first century artist and professor Hongtao Zhou knows...

The U.S. economic recovery is in full force. February marked the 12th consecutive month of job growth above 200,000, with U.S. employers adding nearly 300,000 new jobs. But an even more promising sign of recovery is the jump in Hispanic employment. A front-page article in Sunday's New York Times points out that the unemployment rate for Latinos has finally returned to its pre-recession average and job growth for...

By Ambassador Melanne Verveer and Sarah Degnan Kambou "I was in the field when they came. They came out of nowhere and they took me away, into the bush. I was just a child. They stole us away. They stole our innocence. They stole our lives from us." These are the words of Espérence, a girl taken from her family when war erupted in her village in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo....

In the naughts, British-born novelist and author Rana Dasgupta was thrilled to call Delhi his home -- a city still buzzing with possibility after India’s 1991 entry into the world of market-driven capitalism. Today, he raises concerns that India’s economic rise has come with massive inequality, environmental destruction, and potential social unrest. In Part 2 of an interview with the...

A rescue team in Vietnam recently saved a 4-year-old wild elephant with an infected foot and injured trunk, giving the young animal another shot at life. Joost Philippa, a veterinarian with animal welfare NGO Animals Asia traveled to central Vietnam's Dak Lak province, where the male elephant had been caught in a hunter's wire trap. He worked with experts from the Dak Lak Elephant Conservation Centre to treat...

The story of Manon Lescaut is the classic saga of a young woman torn between love and money. It has inspired several operas and the Met returned its production of Massenet's lovely and popular Manon to the stage last night with a sterling cast led by Diana Damrau in the title role and Vittorio Grigolo as her one true love, Chevalier des Grieux. Damrau, known mostly for her coloratura and...