Nation Mar 20 Federal authorities say no foul play in death of black man hanging in a tree in Mississippi A black man was found hanging in a tree in Mississippi, and now federal and state investigators are trying to determine if his death was a suicide or homicide.
Nation Mar 19 Here’s why it’s so hard to figure out how Millennials feel about racism What explains the conflicting data about how young people feel about race in America?…
Science Mar 16 How data may make better medicine Since the 1950s, overall productivity has gone down in biomedical and pharmaceutical research and development, but limited data exists to help policy and industry experts understand why. The Brookings Institution recently explored these issues in innovation.
Science Mar 13 Browse the early days of the internet with these GIFs March 15 marks the 30th anniversary of the birth of the .com domain suffix, or dotcom. In the early days, companies acquired their own dotcoms and developed a marketing presence on the Internet. Check out a few of these initial…
World Mar 11 Swine flu outbreak sweeping India worse than health officials admit, study suggests A new study suggests that a strain of swine flu currently sweeping India has mutated from one that spread worldwide in 2009, making the current strain far more dangerous than Indian health officials indicated.
Arts Mar 09 More than 2,000 years of India’s lost literature is coming back into print For more than 2,000 years, several volumes of classical South Asian texts remained locked away in languages that have either died, have a dwindling number of speakers or no one bothered to translate these stories for a global audience.
Health Mar 04 If you avoid these 3 risk factors, scientists can count how many healthy years you’ll add For the first time, scientists have quantified how many heart failure-free years you add to your life if you avoid risky habits that harm your body and contribute to chronic illness.
Arts Feb 27 Leonard Nimoy, best remembered as Mr. Spock on ‘Star Trek,’ dies at 83 For decades on both the "Star Trek" television series and movie franchise, Nimoy played the character of Mr. Spock, a Vulcan, or half-alien who operated under a rigid adherence to logic that guided the crew of Starship Enterprise through the…
Education Feb 27 Teachers unintentionally turn girls away from math and science, study finds However unintended these biases may be, they help to shape women's career paths for years to come, said Edith Sand, an economist at the Bank of Israel and economics professor at Tel Aviv University.
Nation Feb 27 8 people dead in rural Missouri shooting spree Seven people were shot dead in rural Missouri before the alleged gunman turned his weapon on himself in a parked car early Friday, media reports said.