The '70s were a time of deep mistrust, and art imitated life, with cinema producing some all-time great conspiracy thrillers like Klute and Chinatown.

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MIT Technology Review helps break down how this moment is changing science and technology—and how we can make it through.

Boeing’s X-32 (or what would have been the F-32) lost the Joint Strike Fighter competition to Lockheed’s X-35 (now F-35) for five key reasons. -Its radical direct-lift vertical flight system was ...

The U.S. Department of Justice has created a new Enforcement & Affirmative Litigation (“EAL”) Branch within the Civil Division, signaling a ...

New chair Oliver Simons outlines his plans and discusses why the study of languages and literature is key today.

Bodies keep surfacing — and so do questions. There's a dark current in Houston's bayous this year, with 16 bodies recovered, five of them in the same week last month. City leaders are downplaying ...

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The late star was remembered as “a professional’s professional.” Reporter Kimberly Hébert Gregory, known for her roles in The Big Bang Theory, Vice Principals, and Grey’s Anatomy has died at the age ...

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Such an event, which is rare enough to spark interest on its own, has also given way to plenty of wild ideas about what it ...