Engineers predict a time when people and robots physically interact all day long. For that to happen safely will require…
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Scientists have tracked endangered species for years. Now they're figuring out how to highlight animals and plants that…
Who are the LeBarons, the Mexican-American Mormons who lost nine family members in a massacre on Nov. 4.?
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Veterans of past wars have long been at the forefront of peace advocacy in the United States.
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Nearly a decade after Tyler Clementi's death, there are growing efforts to do more to protect students like him from…
Brazilian evangelicals are politically conservative, but they still believe in climate change. Turning them into climate…
A task force has been assembled in the US Senate to fight anti-Semitism. A specialist in Jewish-American history says the…
Despite many attempts, the Kurds have never won and kept their own nation -- though, after World War I, they came close.
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Protected from development, natural landscapes worldwide are emerging from the violence of war.
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The U.S. Supreme Court will rule on how the Civil Rights Act applies to LGBT people. A business law scholar explains why…
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In a survey, 56% of Americans aged 14 to 24 said they knew little to nothing about the juvenile justice system.
Whistleblowers may stop bad behavior and protect others from harm.