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Artist Paul Gauguin is perhaps most famous for his colorful paintings of Tahitian life. But for years, art historians puzzled over his lesser-known prints: how did he form, layer and transfer images from one medium to another?
Temple Grandin is perhaps the world’s foremost advocate on autism. But before she became famous, she was an awkward young girl who found solace in Mr. Spock’s logical world view in TV’s Star Trek.
Shifting the clocks ahead by an hour can’t have that much of an effect on us, right? According to the experts, losing those 60 precious minutes of sleep can really hurt.
At a crossroads with its chairman leaving, the UN’s IPCC looks to engage more social scientists and representatives from developing countries.
Knowing more than one language not only gives people an edge in the job market, but also develops more empathy and problem-solving skills.
We can already track plenty of body data, but to really make a difference, wearables need to consistently collect clinically valuable information that can be used to improve health.
The remnants of the Cuba-Soviet relationship are still very much part of Cuban culture – a fact on display at this month’s Miami International Film Festival
Research shows that what’s most effective is when health-care providers tailor the conversation to address parents’ particular concerns.
New research shows women entrepreneurs face an unconscious cognitive bias that they don’t have the skills and traits necessary to run successful startups.
The uproar over Hillary Clinton’s email practices raises crucial issues about transparency in government and seems to contradict her own previous commitment to openness.
Its ratings are worse. So why is Fresh Off the Boat considered a success, while All-American Girl was canceled?
It seems that whenever we’re able to push one drug down, a new, but more dangerous synthetic drug, pops up to take its place.
Fifty years ago Lyndon Johnson made the decision to Americanize the conflict in Vietnam. Why?
When conservationists use war metaphors – as in the battle to halt bird hunting in Malta – they hurt their cause by closing down paths to negotiation.
Financial assets compliant with sharia are growing at a much faster pace than the conventional kind, yet North American banks are still stuck on the sidelines.
Would a reprint of Mein Kampf impact a digital generation reared on “Hi Hitler” spoofs?
Industry is on the front lines of responding to the effects of climate change and forward-looking businesses are trying to shape policy – before more stringent measures are imposed.
Scientists may have consigned fad therapies to the dustbin of pseudoscientific history, but that doesn’t mean the knowledge has filtered to the mainstream.
US colleges are failing to prepare students for life in a competitive, globalized economy.
Star Trek fans were especially drawn to Leonard Nimoy’s Mr. Spock – who showed many that it “was okay to be a nerd, that even in the future not everyone fit in, or needed to.”
The thefts make big headlines but rarely hit the bottom line, creating a moral hazard risk that companies won’t invest enough to beef up their security.
A new ecology study doesn’t focus on how people degrade the environment. Instead, it untangles the way physical factors in a pristine ecosystem drive the biology of what lives there.
Things have deteriorated drastically in recent weeks, but passage of IMF-linked reforms offers hope that Ukraine’s economy will make it through its darkest days.
Ever tweet about being sick? Or look up your symptoms online? Researchers are using this information to monitor illnesses and attitudes about health in real time.