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June 2, 2010
The grave of one of the most important women in scientific research has finally been marked.
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by Roger Witherspoon onDecember 31, 2009
One egg yolk at a time.
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October 28, 2009
Who would they destroy? Mac or PC? This year's crop of MacArthur Fellows dish about how their worst habits, how their friends see them and other random things.
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October 8, 2009
Think running the free world is boring? Stressful? President Obama tries to mix it up with a night of stargazing and half-court basketball with his Cabinet.
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by Kai Wright onJuly 27, 2009
Needle-exchange programs are efficient, cost-effective means for HIV/AIDS prevention. Will a controversial, 21-year-old ban stand in the way?
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July 22, 2009
Last week, the often controversial and always conservative William Saletan published a piece about the link between race and cancer outcomes. But do genetic differences between races just a slippery slope toward outright racism?
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by Dayo Olopade onJuly 19, 2009
The 40th anniversary of the moon landing is inspiring, but today's NASA is better off pouring its scientific energy into fixing Planet Earth.
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June 24, 2009
Last fall, James Watson, the father of DNA, spoke the unspeakable, saying that blacks are intellectually inferior. In a conversation with The Root Editor-in-Chief Henry Louis Gates Jr., Watson clarified his views about race and genetics.
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by B.B. Robinson onDecember 17, 2008
Why black colleges need to focus more on science and less on sports.
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