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Partisan debates are less heated at the local level, providing lessons that might help calm the waters nationally.

HBCUs make up just 3% of the country's colleges and universities. But their graduates include 40% of Black engineers and 50% of Black lawyers.

Bruce Springsteen wrote and recorded 'Streets of Minneapolis' within days of Alex Pretti's killing, continuing a long tradition of songs as protest against violence and repression.

Researchers are embarking on the RNA equivalent of the Human Genome Project, including sequencing all the chemical modifications that make cells unique.

Researchers describe what they call a consumption stigma - when you feel judged or looked down on for using certain products or services.

Clergy sometimes place themselves in harm's way for moral and religious reasons. A scholar of religious ethics explains when - and why.

Other billionaires who own newspapers are doing a better job, a journalism professor explains.

Incarcerated in rough barracks surrounded by barbed wire and armed soldiers, Japanese Americans made functional and beautiful items to ease their suffering.

Victorians found a way to anonymously tell people they didn't like exactly how they felt.

Dark matter doesn't seem to interact with the matter we can see and touch, so scientists look for it in unusual places, like faraway galaxies and underground detectors.