Nurith Aizenman

The study focuses on a universal basic income and spans 12 years and thousands of people in Kenya. How did the money change lives? What’s better: monthly payouts or a lump sum.

The implications are potentially enormous, says history professor Kimberly Hamlin: “The myth that man is the hunter and woman is the gatherer ... naturalizes the inferiority of women.”

The wondrous findings of a global project to record the sound of ocean habitats threatened by climate change and pollution.

Even as U.S. authorities investigate Juul for marketing to minors and making unproven safety claims, the company is using those tactics to expand to poorer countries. Case in point: the Philippines.

When she was 19, Renee Bach founded a charity that went on to care for over 900 severely malnourished babies and children. Now she is being sued by two of the mothers whose children died.

When the AIDS crisis started in the 1980s, the official response was tepid. Then activists channeled their anger into into one of the most effective protest movements in recent history.

How much can you tell about a country from its children’s books? Some psychology researchers decided to find out.

Dictionary.com says a hut is "a small or humble dwelling of simple construction, especially one made of natural materials." But some say it has additional connotations.

In this study, thousands of people in some Kenyan villages get a monthly payment. But others in a comparison group get nothing.

Please, says the singer-songwriter, don’t pigeonhole her as some sort of “refugee artist.” She calls her music “East-African Retro-Pop.”

The pay is generous — $1,000 a month. The risks are enormous. They collect the body of an Ebola victim, avoiding any contact that could infect them. They wear safety garb. And they pray.