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As part of The Conversations’s “Curious Kids” series, an astronomer explains how a runaway greenhouse effect has made the surface temperature of Venus hot enough to melt lead.

Both faults are along plate boundaries that move in similar ways and have ruptured in enormously destructive earthquakes in the past.

European colonial powers linked church and state. But the founders of the United States broke from that idea as surely as they broke from Britain.

Fighting back against misinformation about climate change is possible, though not always easy.

Dads today are spending dramatically more time with their kids than they did a generation ago. But there’s a less encouraging trend tucked into this development.

Those in the role should work for the nation, not for a political party or ideology, says a former chair of the National Intelligence Council.

The English assumed people they colonized would convert to their way of life, including Protestant Christianity — an assumption reflected in Pocahontas’ portrait.

What should we call the words that this ultramodern technology produces? For clues, a USC Dornsife professor looks to some of the world’s earliest authors.