History

For same Asian Americans, it was the first time in Nashville they saw so many Asian Americans gathered in one place. This was a vigil last March for the victims of the Atlanta spa shooting.

A year after the Atlanta spa deaths, Asian American communities build stronger ties

3:35pm March 16, 2022

by Juliana Kim

After the slaying of six Asian American women in Atlanta last year, many Asian American are trying to build the infrastructure and resources for their communities to feel safe and supported.

Spain's government said this week it impounded this superyacht called "Valerie," moored in Barcelona, saying it belonged to a Russian oligarch.

World News

Why so many Russian billionaires are called oligarchs

2:11pm March 15, 2022

by Wynne Davis

Many of the sanctions the U.S. and EU have imposed on Russia are meant to target some of the country's wealthiest. But what's the difference between a "normal" billionaire and an "oligarch"?

Science

A group unearths the forgotten history of women in archaeology

5:14pm March 14, 2022

A group of archaeologists and paleontologists noticed the women of their field were being forgotten. So they made the Trowelblazers, an archive featuring female achievement in the "digging sciences."

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Arts

Ukrainians work to protect historic monuments from Russian bombs

5:46pm March 12, 2022

by Lauren Frayer

Over half of Ukraine's UNESCO-protected monuments are in the western city of Lviv. To protect them, city officials are wrapping statues in fireproof material and hiding artifacts in bunkers.

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Nizar Ibrahim speaks at TEDYouth, November 15, 2014, Session 1, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York. Photo: Ryan Lash/TED

Nizar Ibrahim: How did we unearth the largest predator in history?

9:47am March 11, 2022

The largest predator in history was bigger than a T. Rex and longer than a school bus. And it swam. Paleontologist Nizar Ibrahim shares his quest to uncover the Spinosaurus.

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Interstate 405 cuts through neighborhoods near the Los Angeles International Airport, seen here in 2017. A new study found links between modern urban air pollution and historical redlining at the national level.

Even many decades later, redlined areas see higher levels of air pollution

10:04pm March 10, 2022

by Laurel Wamsley

"We see a really clear association between how these maps were drawn in the '30s and the air pollution disparities today," says an author of a study on the effects of the discriminatory policy.

World News

Levi's pulling out of Russia reminds people of the country's jean smuggler era

5:07pm March 10, 2022

With over a hundred businesses cutting ties with Russia, one company in particular, Levi's, is reminding people of a time in Russian history when Western jeans were a well sought after commodity.

Lost since 1915, Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance is found off Antarctica

5:08am March 10, 2022

The lost ship of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton has been found — 106 years after the vessel sank. The wooden ship Endurance is remarkably intact about 10,000 feet underwater off Antarctica.

The Endurance was located by an expedition this week, 106 years after it sank into the Weddell Sea.

Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance, lost since 1915, is found off Antarctica

6:58pm March 09, 2022

by Laurel Wamsley

An expedition went where few have ever gone to locate the remnants of a ship that became trapped in the ice 106 years ago, dashing the famed explorer's ambitious mission to cross Antarctica.

A building in Poland is being used for a purpose its designers couldn't have imagined

5:23pm March 09, 2022

In Lublin, Poland, a decades-old building has taken on a purpose its designers could never have imagined. Members of the Jewish community say this may have been the building's purpose all along.