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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Pakistan visit will go beyond negotiating tactics ahead of this week's Afghanistan conference. It will aim to move the relationship beyond US pressure to …

The human species during its brief time on Earth has exhibited a remarkable capacity to kill itself off. The Cro-Magnons dispatched the gentler Neanderthals. The conquistadors, with the help …

It’s a nagging question that has long haunted the equality-minded world of academia: Why are women so underrepresented in the fields of science and technology? Do they simply have …

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We face what appears to be a military industrial media empire so powerful and complex that truth is mostly absent or reported in disconnected segments with little historical context. …

For the first time in 87 days, little or no oil could be escaping into the Gulf of Mexico from BP's Macondo well. The new capping stack was deployed …

If there's one thing everyone knows these days, whether they're happy about it or not, it's that we live in a “global” economy. This fact is taken as so …

The thermosphere recently collapsed in an unexpectedly large contraction, the sheer size of which has scientists scratching their heads. An upper layer of Earth's atmosphere recently collapsed in an …

A number of people have asked me what I think about the financial reform bill that was finally passed by the Senate. I don't think I have much to …

If you live on the Gulf Coast, welcome to the real world of oil — and just know that you're not alone. In the Niger Delta and the Ecuadorian …