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Is this what you get from the best and the brightest on Wall Street? On Tuesday, June 30, 2009, a day that should live in financial infamy, investment manager MacroMarkets launched two ETFs designed to track housing values.

Home prices in 20 major U.S. metropolitan areas fell in April at a slower pace than forecast, a sign the plunge in real-estate values is abating.

The skin of a hadrosaur, a dinosaur that lived some 66 million years ago, pokes out of the soil at Hell Creek Formation, North Dakota.

Named the Spitzer Adaptation of the Red-sequence Cluster Survey, "SpARCS" detects galaxy clusters using deep ground-based optical observations from the CTIO 4m and CFHT 3.6m telescopes, combined with Spitzer Space Telescope infrared observations.

Universities under pressure to improve quality as students worry that a Japanese-only education will leave them ill-prepared + Enlarge This image A successful applicant is tossed in the air by current students at The University of Tokyo in Tokyo, Japan on March 10.

Fifty million years ago, the North and South Poles were ice-free and crocodiles roamed the Arctic.

The rates of adult obesity in the United States increased in 23 states during the past year and did not decrease in any state.

Watching food ads on TV leads to a boost in snacking among children and adults, increasing the risk of weight gain, U.S. researchers say.

University of Texas System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa told Latino leaders Tuesday that the lack of educational attainment, particularly for minorities, is "a gathering storm" that threatens America's competitiveness.

Home prices saw a a oestriking improvement in the rate of declinea in April and trading in funds launched today indicates investors believe the U.S. housing slump is nearing a bottom, said Yale University economist Robert Shiller .

Yale researchers build a quantum processor that fits in a bread box--sort of. Over the history of computing, smaller has come to mean better.

Rose Nanyonga, raised as a witch doctor in Uganda, became a nurse in the United States and is on track toward a Ph.D. from Yale University.

Oregon Attorney General John Kroger swept into office six months ago with promises of an aggressive administration.

BACK when times were better and the newspaper industry wasn't fighting for dear life, reporters at the Cleveland Plain Dealer would regularly grumble at the measly pay increases their union negotiated.

In one of the largest gatherings of critics since the Creation Museum in northern Kentucky opened two years ago, six dozen paleontologists in the area for a conference Wednesday took a field trip to get a glimpse of the marketing tactics used by the other side of the evolution debate.

N.Korea 'Helping Burma with WMD'North Korea is helping Burma with the acquisition of so-called weapons of mass destruction, with the U.S. claiming that the North Korean ship Kangnam is headed for the Southeast Asian country.

Three years ago, End Hunger Connecticut! was dubbed the "Twinkie Police" by soda and snack food corporations as we worked on legislation to get junk food - including soda - out of our public schools.

In a short essay that Abbas Amanat, a scholar of 19th-century Iran at Yale University, was asked to write for The New York Times on the current crisis in Iran, he asserted that what we are witnessing is "the rise of a new middle class whose demands stand in contrast to the radicalism of the incumbent President [Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad and the core ...

In 1898, London readers were held enthralled for months by the serialized adventures of one Louis de Rougemont, who related a tale of having his ship engulfed by a giant whirlpool and being lost in the South Seas for three decades.

The U.S. Justice Department asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by descendants of Apache leader Geronimo, whose remains were purported to be stolen long ago by members of a secret society at Yale University.