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For all its hype as a potential panacea for companies everywhere, Big Data isn't necessarily useful data.

Researchers identified a small region of the central brain that may be responsible for human determination in the face of serious challenges.

Cellist Maya Beiser. The Israeli musician performs in "Linked Verse," a fusion of sound and image that blends Japanese and Western styles of music.

Higher education has long been touted as a way out of poverty, but that only works if poor students enroll in quality universities.

Orgenesis, Inc. , a development-stage company with a novel regenerative medicine technology that converts a diabetes patient's liver cells into functioning insulin-producing cells, has been invited to present at the 2013 World Stem Cell Summit on Wednesday, December 4, 2013 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego.

A single layer of tin: If used as wiring in computer chips, the material, called "stanene," could increase the speed and lower the power needs of future generations of computers.

From TechDirt.com Case Over No-Fly List Takes Bizarre Turn As Gov't Puts Witness On No Fly List, Then Denies Having Done So from the shameless dept As you my have heard, there's a trial going on here in San Francisco about the legality of the complete lack of any sort of due process concerning the US's "no fly" list.

Some in the press have inquired about the November 2010 letter urging the Federal Reserve not to undertake a second round of quantitative easing.

A former political consultant to the millionaire businesswoman who unsuccessfully ran for the presidency of Madagascar is suing the Belmont resident over more than $165,000 in unpaid bills.

Don't go calling California's 2016 GOP presidential primary or general election for Chris Christie just yet, but a new Field Poll finds the Golden State's voters like him better than four other potential Republican candidates.

QI can remember back to grade school when I was scared to death of math. In high school, I took the minimum number of math classes.

Gynecologist Dr. Leah Millheiser talks with a new patient at Stanford in Palo Alto, California, on Wednesday, November 13, 2013.

Damian Ewens sits in his snazzy office at BetaSpring, a Providence business incubator.

Students in the United States made scant headway on recent global achievement exams and slipped deeper in the international rankings amid fast-growing competition abroad, according to test results released Tuesday.

I am writing this column while not checking my email, fielding a phone call, consulting with colleagues or eating my lunch.

For many years, intelligence was thought to be static and could not be altered. Informal research has shown this to be particularly true when it comes to students thinking about their mathematics intelligence.

Each week, we take a look at a word or phrase that's caught our attention, whether for its history, usage, etymology, or just because it has an interesting story.

In August of last year, poet Tess Taylor of El Cerrito spent a day in the studios of NPR as a "NewsPoet," a writer-in-residence observing the development of news and programs from around the world.

The announcement is being made at the Leapfrog Annual Meeting on December 3 in Arlington, Va., which gathers key decision-makers from Leapfrog's network of purchaser members, industry partners, health care stakeholders and national collaborators.

The standards are being implemented in 45 states and the District of Columbia, but critics say they were written in private and never tested in real classrooms, and that educators aren't familiar enough with the standards to use them.