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When comedian Larry Wilmore called President Obama ‘my n-gga’ during the White House Correspondents’ Association annual dinner, what was he really saying?
Testing whether machines are capable of generating sonnets, short stories or dance music that is indistinguishable from human-generated works.
We don’t need to look for Earth-like planets exclusively around Sun-like stars. Tiny, dim TRAPPIST-1 has only 11 percent the diameter of the Sun and is much redder.
Because Netflix continually upends established business models, evaluating the company can difficult.
“Do Not Resuscitate” orders have increased in schools from 29.7 percent in 2000 to 46.2 percent in 2006. Here’s why they are a tough call for schools.
In 2012, nearly one-third of voters with a disability had trouble voting. A 2002 law was supposed to fix this problem. New technology may have the answer at last.
More bad news for America’s beleaguered bats as white nose syndrome spreads to the West Coast. A wildlife biologist explains why this change has the bat community so worried.
Trump and Cruz certainly think so. Clinton promises to maintain the “strongest military the world has ever known.” An OSU professor examines the issue through three different lens.
Pay transparency laws are the latest effort to eliminate the still-yawning gap between the salaries of men and women. Do they work?
Look beyond transgenic techniques that add new genes to a species. People have used selective breeding techniques to change plants and animals for millennia – why not try them on mosquitoes?
A survey of 1,200 voters provides insight into which candidate is closest to the median American voter on the issues.
Thanks to improvements in the speed and cost of DNA analysis, traditional methods of tracking diseases are increasingly being paired with genomic technology.
A key goal of the Affordable Care Act was to lower health care costs, but first we have to help individuals make better choices.
Imagining possible futures can help us plan a secure information technology environment for the years to come.
Cutting-edge urban foresters argue not only for the intrinsic value of trees but also for the many economic and health benefits.
The popularity of libraries has not diminished. Numbers show more people are going to libraries than ever before. Here’s why.
Throwaway phones are just one piece of the ever-widening technological arsenal of extremists and terror groups of all kinds.
Climate activists are shaping the political debate with a revised strategy that focuses on the environmental risks of fracking for oil and natural gas.
Research from the University of Maryland suggests that ‘Trump culture’ is part of human culture, and has its roots in warfare, famine and natural disasters.
Prince had ‘Purple Rain.’ Michael Jackson had ‘Thriller.’ And now Beyoncé has her own self-reflective masterpiece.
Kindergarteners are under tremendous pressure – doing as many as 15 academic activities in a day, with a shorter recess time. What is the long-term impact?
Providing women with a range of reproductive health options – from abortions to IUDs – is not only essential for their financial security but good for the economy as well.
One of the great technological challenges of this century is to design novel items and then make them – and have the results match the intent.
Trump is no longer winning simple pluralities. He’s scoring majorities – which will make it nearly impossible for the GOP to Dump Trump.