It’s rare to find a news story that I want to share with my kids. But that’s the goal behind our digital team’s latest project — we want to create stories that you’ll want to read to your family at ...

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President Obama recently returned from the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris and declared, "Today the American people can be proud because this historic agreement is a tribute to ...

That value is asserted with gentle but firm assurance by Michela Massimi, the recent recipient of the Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal, an award given annually by the UK’s Royal Society. Massimi’s prize ...

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Last week, I sat for an exam that induced more perspiration than was necessary. My previous exam had been more than a year ago and although the one last week was more of an informal affair (there were ...

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It seems we’re using science fiction as a roadmap to make our dreams, and more often nightmares, come true. Why is it that we manufacture a nightmarish future and refuse to heed the warnings so ...

Recollections can be vivid, as when Francis Crick looked back to a moment in February 1953: “Jerry Donohue and Jim Watson were by the blackboard and I was by my desk, and we suddenly thought, ‘Well, ...