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Jeanette Nuñez, who has spent her career in politics, has a resume that marks a departure from previous FIU presidents. Unlike the university’s past two presidents, Nuñez — who was selected without a ...

Imagine resurrecting a long-debunked myth, slapping a fresh coat of pseudoscience on it, and dropping it just in time to sway ...

The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

Given that Massachusetts has lower birth and marriage rates than the national average, the lack of funding for infrastructure could impact the state's economy, a UMass Amherst professor says.

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I’m up on Cape Cod, and I get a message from one of my staff saying, “You don’t want to see this, but you better read it.” It ...

Faculty Senate members criticized a presentation on AI’s role in academia, while University leaders advised faculty to ...

O n a freezing night in January, several hundred people came to Boston’s Museum of Science for a town hall-style discussion ...

Fans of Scientific American might have hoped that activist journalism would leave the magazine along with former editor Laura ...

Respectful and constructive dialogue is vanishing from American political life. There is, arguably, no more urgent question ...

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