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Of all the political battles to wage, why did Northern Virginia's Korean community go to the mat over cartography? Last week's cover story by Mike Paarlberg looked at the statehouse migraine caused by a quixotic campaign to change the "Sea of Japan" to the "East Sea" in Virginia textbooks and what it says about one of the commonwealth's ... (more)

Clinkle, the stealth payment startup founded by 22-year-old Lucas Duplan, is losing the COO it hired five months ago from Netflix, Barry McCarthy.

Tina Seelig is the executive director for the Stanford Technology Ventures Program , the entrepreneurship center at Stanford University's School of Engineering, where she focuses on developing the next generation of entrepreneurial leaders.

Robo-editor. If you want to be a better writer but don't have an editor or teacher to point out your errors, the website Hemingway analyzes text for common mistakes such as passive voice, prolific adverbs, and overly long or confusing sentences.

A low-cost microscope made from folded paper and a cheap lens could revolutionize education and health care in the developing world.

Susie Lubell is a self-taught artist and illustrator whose paintings feature vibrant folk imagery coupled with verse from Jewish liturgy.

Jay Lewis, of Hofstra University, on Wednesday, March 12, 2014, says the Regents are rushing the new system into place.

Patients with a complement factor H mutation have a 30-100% risk of graft loss due to aHUS recurrence or graft thrombosis."

'There is little difference in the digestibility of raw milk and pasteurized milk', claims a pilot study, 'Effect of Raw Milk on Lactose Intolerance,' from Stanford University School of Medicine.

First time book author Jo DeEds along with James Reveal have co-authored a fictional story that takes place in the very real Tuolumne County of the 1950s.

For most of Vincent Gray's three-plus years as District of Columbia mayor, federal prosecutors have been investigating alleged dirty tricks in his 2010 campaign.

You're lying on your back in bed with a pair of headphones on, listening to a new album by one of your favorite artists.

Girls Inc. of West Contra Costa County is celebrating young women in its College Bound Girls program who have won college scholarships.

Our Children's Earth and Ecological Rights Foundation filed the lawsuit Tuesday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, claiming the service is not properly protecting steelhead trout in San Francisquito creek.

Kitty Genovese's screams for help couldn't save her on the night she was murdered outside her apartment building in 1964.

Kitty Genovese's screams for help couldn't save her on the night she was murdered outside her apartment building in 1964.

Rice University has been on several lists this year, including Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine list of the "30 Best Values in Small Colleges" and the "30 Best College Values in the West/Southwest."

Intel Science Talent Search finalists, from left to right, Esha Maiti, Sara Sakowitz, Natalie Ng, and Angela Kong.

By the time Nashville toddlers from low-income families enter kindergarten, they will have heard 30 million fewer words than their peers from higher-income parents.

Bill Whalen who is a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution says the high-speed rail project is also a subject sure to be on voters' minds this year.