There's a difference between knowing that something evolved and understanding why it stuck around. Most of the systems running your body right now weren't designed for the life you're actually living.

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In the coming months, Americans will be invited to celebrate the nation’s 250th birthday. The U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission aims to commemorate the signing of the Declaration of Independence by ...

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This year, professor Charis Kubrin will get the biggest prize a criminologist can receive. She’s also under threat.

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Chris Tungseth has made it to the Live Shows in Season 24 of American Idol. Along with the rest of the Top 20, he gave a pre-taped performance in Hawaii earlier this year, and his fate in the ...

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Bill Nye “The Science Guy” invokes everything except science in his criticism of the Environmental Protection Agency’s rescission of its 2009 finding that greenhouse-gas emissions endanger public ...

DNA from a distance ...