Even if you come in dead last in every poll, a run for the presidency might be a career booster. Then again, anyone remember the Carol Moseley Braun campaign of 2004?
Texas: leading the ‘Shale Revolution.’
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After years of conflicting research and often extreme opinions on iron, it turns out that like anything else that is a benefit in moderation, in excess it is a detriment.
Art as labor.
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Why do we need the humanities? A scholar of arts revisits a moment in the 1930s to emphasize the importance of creative work and its value in our education.
What would a Supreme Court “compromise” do for gay parents?
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We spend much of our time inside buildings. What chemicals and microbes are in here with us? And how do they affect each other? One scientist collects dust to find out.
Even for couples who work full time, the burden of less fun forms of parenting, like changing diapers, often falls on the mother.
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During World War II the US military forged partnerships with industry and academia that translated laboratory findings into working products at an unprecedented pace.
Suicides are the second leading cause of death on college campuses.
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The obscure candidates jumping into the Republican race for president will likely only see the inside of the White House on a tour. Yet long-shot candidates persist. Why?
The tragedy at sea captured by a London Illustrated News artist
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The torpedoing of the passenger liner in 1915 was abhorrent but the story behind the story reveals one of the first effective government propaganda campaigns
Tomorrow’s engineers? Unlikely.
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Apes and people are sharing habitat more than ever. As apes are pushed into novel situations, we can see how they adapt and maybe find clues into early human evolution.
How much of the harmful arsenic does it have?
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Americans unhappy with our two-party system only need look at the British election this week for an alternative. But they might not like what they see.
A man waves a gay rights flag in front of the Supreme Court building.
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Astronomers aren’t mere stargazers these days. One researcher explains the ins and outs of how they collect data from far-off galaxies and what they do with it back at the office.