The case seemed to end on the first day of the trial when the lawyer for the accused declared Dzhokhar Tsarnaev did plant one of the bombs. So what is really at stake here?
A 1893 self-portrait of the French artist Paul Gauguin (1848-1903).
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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?
Leonard Nimoy, who played Spock in the Star Trek series, died on Feb. 27
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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.
It’s only an hour. What difference could it make?
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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.
The United Nation’s IPCC is considered the definitive source on climate science in international negotiations.
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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.
Once upon a time it was an eternal indestructible friendship
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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
Helping parents decide to immunize their children may be a matter of communication.
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Sarah Thebaud, University of California, Santa Barbara
New research shows women entrepreneurs face an unconscious cognitive bias that they don’t have the skills and traits necessary to run successful startups.
Hillary Clinton in Hampton, N.H. in 2007 Photo by Marc Nozell.
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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.
Based on Eddie Huang’s bestselling memoir, ABC’s Fresh Off the Boat premiered last month.
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Fifty years ago Lyndon Johnson made the decision to Americanize the conflict in Vietnam. Why?
Police authorities in Malta have taken steps to curtail bird hunting, including this enforcement in 2007, but illegal hunting continues.
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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.
Adolf Hitler gives the Nazi salute in 1939.
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Would a reprint of Mein Kampf impact a digital generation reared on “Hi Hitler” spoofs?
Extreme weather events, such as droughts, will impact businesses in many industries, particularly those that rely on natural resources.
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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.
Discredited therapies about autism take a long time to die.
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Scientists may have consigned fad therapies to the dustbin of pseudoscientific history, but that doesn’t mean the knowledge has filtered to the mainstream.
Are graduates getting value for their money?
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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.”
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Lynn Zubernis, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
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.”
Frustrated by a lack of investment in cybersecurity?
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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.
Coral reefs, the rain forests of the sea.
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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.