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The comics giant’s Multiversity — a comic eight years in the making, that’s as much superhero action as it is quantum theory — is, according to critics, easily one of the best stories to come out of comics in the past year.


The ongoing debate about risky research on anthrax, bird flu, and other deadly microbes


This poison surprise is actually good news. Here’s why.


Even some blue-state liberals no longer want Obama to take executive action.


One biologist’s story of how genetic testing broke his family apart.

Obama’s controversial uses of executive power cluster around one main theme: waiving, modifying, or refusing to enforce key provisions in laws dealing with domestic policy.


Dick Tracy used to be the only person with a communication device on his wrist. Apple might change that on a massive scale.


How the war on drugs began, and what went wrong.


What you need to know about the upcoming Scottish independence vote.


From 1914 to 2014, drug prohibition has long been a tradition in American policy.


Don’t judge Janay Rice. Leaving an abusive relationship is easier said than done.


But it’s almost certainly doomed.


Reddit has banned TheFappening, a community dedicated to naked pictures stolen from celebrities. But the site says the move doesn’t contradict its free-speech principles.


The season one finale of ‘The Leftovers’ was surprisingly cathartic.


A new study finds that California blue whales are nearly back to pre-whaling levels.