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Injuries among small kids under five mysteriously increased 10 percent between 2005 and 2012. New research places blame at an unlikely cuprit: the iPhone.


How, after years of failure, the US and China came to a deal on climate change.


If we let them build it, they will have to pay people to do that.


They may have started as a response to the disappearance of 43 student protesters, but now Mexico’s protests are about much more than that. Here’s what you need to know about the protests, and the deep problems in Mexico that inspired them.


Steve Carell is nearly unrecognizable in the film’s central role, while Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo are terrific as well.




Why are the same conversations that happened in a film about the civil rights movement being recycled in 2014?


Three text messages a week, at a cost of less than $1 per family, helped parents help their kids.


Today, people landed a spacecraft on a comet for the first time ever. This is what it looked like.


Comments like these are the reminder society creates unrealistic expectations for women. Acting like a mother, these comments seem to say, means hiding sexuality at all costs.


Are voters angry at Democrats because of the economy?


The future of US-China, and not ISIS or Ukraine, is America’s biggest challenge. Believe it or not, it’s going America’s way.


If you’d prefer to get your health insurance information in cartoon form (and who doesn’t, really?), check out this Kaiser Family Foundation video.


House Science chair Lamar Smith is trying again to limit funding to the agency’s social science programs. Here’s what you need to know.


We’d landed on six celestial bodies ever. The tiny Philae probe just made it seven.