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Producers Fast Eddie and Joe Smooth mix at DJ International Studios in Chicago in 1990. Innovation was at the forefront of house and hip-hop. Raymond Boyd/Getty Images

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From breakbeats to the dance floor: How hip-hop and house revolutionized music and culture

Staff Writer - January 31, 2025

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In a New York City neighborhood, the challenges….

A 1910 watercolor portrait of Belle da Costa Greene by Laura Coombs Hills. The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, gift of the Estate of Belle da Costa Greene.

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The Black librarian who rewrote the rules of power, gender and passing as white

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How Prince’s quest for complete artistic control changed the music industry forever

Rescue workers search debris for victims of the Labor Day hurricane of 1935, a Category 5 storm that devastated parts of the Florida Keys. Bettman/Getty Images

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Hemingway, after the hurricane

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Why a handwritten will found in Aretha Franklin’s couch got R‑E‑S‑P‑E‑C‑T...

Staff Writer - July 16, 2023

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In a New York City neighborhood, the challenges….

Staff Writer - February 8, 2016

Republicans and Democrats tend to have children at around the same rates and ages and to view parenthood in a similar way. iStock / Getty Images Plus

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‘Childless cat ladies’ is a political catchphrase that doesn’t match reality...

Staff Writer - October 15, 2024

Rescue workers search debris for victims of the Labor Day hurricane of 1935, a Category 5 storm that devastated parts of the Florida Keys. Bettman/Getty Images

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Hemingway, after the hurricane

Staff Writer - October 18, 2024

Many members of the 27 Club are outsize in their cultural influence. Psychology Forever/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

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The 27 Club isn’t true, but it is real − a...

Staff Writer - November 4, 2024

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EXPLORING NATURE

The Women’s Health Initiative investigated the risks and benefits of menopausal hormone therapy. Kohei Hara/DigitalVision via Getty Images

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The Women’s Health Initiative has shaped women’s health for over 30...

Staff Writer - May 3, 2025

Jean Wactawski-Wende, University at Buffalo Women make up more than 50% of the population, yet before the 1990s they...

Tatooine’s moisture farming equipment stands in the desert of Tunisia, where parts of the ‘Star Wars’ movie series were filmed. Véronique Debord-Lazaro via Flickr, CC BY-SA

Some ‘Star Wars’ stories have already become reality

May 2, 2025

Fireflies in Boulder, Colo., during the summer of 2023. Radim Schreiber/Firefly Experience, CC BY

Fleeting fireflies illuminate Colorado summer nights − and researchers are watching

May 1, 2025

A frog-eating bat approaches a túngara frog, one of its preferred foods. Grant Maslowski

Young bats learn to be discriminating when listening for their next meal

April 29, 2025

The universe is filled with countless galaxies, stars and planets. Astronomers may find life one day, but they will need extraordinary proof. ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre (CEA Paris-Saclay), G. Anselmi

‘Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence’ − an astronomer explains how much...

April 27, 2025