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Steven Pinker, a professor of psychology at Harvard University, is the author of the best-selling books, “How the Mind Works,” and “The Blank Slate.” But he is also a public intellectual, devoted to bringing the ideas of academia to questions of broad public interest. His latest work is an ambitious attempt to understand the origins, history--and perhaps the future--of human violence.

Over the past four years, John Matthews has been traveling the world to better understand freshwater and climate change issues. He found that poor planning is creating one of the biggest water-related threats.

Sometimes solving the biggest challenges begins with understanding something very small -- like the tiny grains that form a piece of metal. For a team of scientists who wanted to improve automotive fuel efficiency, understanding and controlling the size of the grains in aluminum allowed the design of an easy and inexpensive method for producing lightweight automotive parts, replacing heavier steel, leading to improved fuel efficiency

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How can Obama have the biggest impact when he speaks to Congress about job creation Thursday evening? It’s hard to overestimate the delicacy of the challenge President Obama faces in his speech Thursday night to a joint session of Congress

Tiger Woods wasn't the only star to miss the cut at the PGA Championship on Friday, just the biggest.

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the biggest unsolved problems in astrophysics is that galaxies and galaxy clusters rotate faster than expected, given the amount of existing baryonic (normal) matter. The fast orbits require a larger central mass than the nearby stars, dust, and other baryonic objects can provide, leading scientists to propose that every galaxy resides in a halo of (as yet undetectable) dark matter made of non-baryonic particles. As one of many scientists who have become somewhat skeptical of dark matter, CERN physicist Dragan Slavkov Hajdukovic has proposed that the illusion of dark matter may be caused by the gravitational polarization of the quantum vacuum.

Which states put up the biggest roadblocks to women seeking abortions? You might be surprised

Tom Watson was more interested in honoring a longtime relationship than competing in one of the biggest senior events of the year.

Eminem did the trick: Your pitch went well and you signed on your biggest client yet.

The company touts its environmental investing and shrinking carbon footprint and--oh yeah--how it's working to fix the housing crisis it helped start.

Foursquare gets hundreds, if not thousands, of brand requests every week. Here's how to forge a partnership with the in-demand service, and to reach customers who might get lost in the shuffle on Facebook or Twitter

For years health officials have thrown money at ways to prevent young children from dying, with little global data on effectiveness. Recently a pattern has emerged: mortality drops in proportion to the years of schooling that women attain

To most Americans electric cars are as new a concept as the first combustion vehicles were to horse-and buggy-drivers in the early years of the 20th century. But to the organizations around the world that have been working to make modern electric cars a consumer reality, it has taken decades to get to this point. In fact, the electric car industry is old enough now that it has developed its own internal conflicts--the biggest of which centers on vehicle charging