Black women turn out to vote like no other demographic group, and they overwhelmingly vote Democratic. So who are they going to back in the southern primaries?
How hard should it be for the FBI to get access to your iPhone’s data?
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We are beginning to be able to control very precisely how light interacts with matter, creating opportunities for invisibility, soundproofing and even earthquake damage prevention.
Who will join their ranks now – and when?
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Apple’s refusal to back down in its fight with the FBI is a sharp reversal from just a few years ago when it was the government urging tech companies to do more to protect consumer privacy.
An unusual date that comes to us from the heavens.
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The dramatic improvements in survival for children with cancer depend on clinical trials, and these trials depend on parents understanding the possible risks and benefits involved.
Flaking lead paint in a home in Muncie, Indiana.
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How did lead poisoning become a persistent threat in U.S. cities? Lead paint and slumlords played key roles, but so did postwar housing policies that trapped minorities in crumbling inner cities.
American classrooms do not talk frankly about teenage love or emotional intimacy.
Brett Sayer
Sex education in American classrooms tends to focus on physical acts, disease and pregnancy. It provides little support to teenage boys for their need for emotional intimacy.
Subprime loans could ease not only the housing affordability crisis but rising homelessness as well.
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The Hollywood flick recalls subprime’s role in the 2008 financial crisis, but, by helping more low-income households buy a home, the loans can help ease the affordability crisis and homelessness.
A line snakes down the sidewalk at Western High School in Las Vegas during the Nevada Republican presidential caucus.
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It helps society function when people punish selfish acts, even at a personal cost. A new theory suggests third-party punishment also confers some benefits on the punisher.
Free Syrian Army fighters on their smartphones.
Jalal Al-mamo/Reuters
Global warming is often seen as a problem for future generations, but focusing on the immediate – and substantial – health benefits of clean energy can change public perception of climate change.
Since 2009, record sales have soared.
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While technological advances have rendered some products obsolete, they’ve also spurred the growth of niche markets that cater to people looking to reject mass-produced goods.
The statue of John Harvard, the first benefactor of Harvard University.
Wally Gobetz
A bill before Congress is proposing colleges and universities with endowments of at least $1 billion spend 25 percent of the money on financial aid. What is the proposal missing?
The casket of late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is carried between rows of Supreme Court clerks.
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Scalia’s legacy as an activist against judicial activism will be long-lived.
A book about Aedes aegypti mosquitoes is seen next to larvae in a laboratory conducting research on preventing the spread of the Zika virus and other mosquito-borne diseases, at the Ministry of Public Health in Guatemala City.
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