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Walmart’s promised wage hike will help half a million of its workers make a living, but it really just shows how much America’s working class struggles.
The technology HIV testing has evolved since 1985. And so too have our perceptions about what a positive HIV test means.
The release of a report on diversity at MIT prompts the question: how does the university compare with other influential STEM establishments?
The ethics surrounding corporate and foreign donations to the foundations of politicians are murky, but it’s hard to deny the givers are angling for influence.
Prior to the 1970s, almost all Phase I and II drug trials were conducted on prisoners. Our standards have gotten better since then, but still need revision.
In the 1920s, many black musicians were exploited by record companies, and faded into anonymity. Here are some of their stories.
This open internet debate isn’t the first time the government has wrestled with the question of how to apportion rights between private media owners and the public.
A roundtable of energy experts weigh in on the significance of Obama’s veto — the economics, the politics and the environmental — as well as what’s next.
The 2010 Flash Crash wiped 1,000 points off the DJIA in an instant. An MIT professor explains how to keep it from happening again.
History is not a ‘thing’ to be memorized, as some in the Oklahoma legislature might believe, but a living process, to be understood in all its complexity.
What kind of coffee you buy matters a lot to birds — key indicators of biodiversity in the tropics which likely provide many environmental and economic services.
If you’re always above average, it’s probably time to redefine what’s normal. The new normal for Earth’s climate is systematically rising temperatures.
The dramatic story of the rise and fall of the Freedman’s Bank 1865-1874
The FCC proposal could prevent content discrimination but wouldn’t solve the main problem: most rules governing the web are 80 years old.
It’s often said the medical tourism can help support public health systems in developing countries. But that often isn’t the case.
Research shows that testing kids is detrimental and technology could offer a better way to track learning.
An eyewitness to Libya’s optimism after the overthrow of Moammar Gadhafi asks how it has become a base for ISIS.
China supplanted the US as Africa’s biggest partner in 2009, but the Americans are hoping to catch up.
In the beginning, newscasters weren’t even visible to TV news viewers. With Walter Cronkite, everything changed.
With increasing knowledge and familiarity, we’ll no longer be able to identify meaningful criteria to keep these good planets down.
Regions that depend on shellfish heavily for their economy and with limited information exchange will be hit hardest by ocean acidification.
Economic research over the past 50 years shows efforts to regulate telecoms as utilities doesn’t work.
Kids are flu super spreaders, which is why locating vaccination programs in schools can protect whole communities.
Kate Daniels, the director of Vanderbilt’s creative writing program, recalls the life and work of her mentor, a man “devoted…to creating gritty and empathetic portraits of American blue collar workers.”