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Nobel laureate Dr. George Smoot, who conducted groundbreaking research into the origins of the universe, has died. He was 80.

ON A WEDNESDAY morning a little more than 30 years ago, before his mother left for work in downtown Oklahoma City, a boy named Kyle Genzer told her he loved her. It was a sunny, cloudless day. "Like ...

We've wondered for centuries whether knowledge is latent and innate or learned and grasped through experience, and a new ...

Were you paying attention in your high school Civic’s Class, or did Coach what’s-his-name bore you into oblivion? The answer ...