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The first woman scientist to win the Nobel Prize, Marie Curie, lived by the credo that scientific thinking could be of great value to society. She stressed that science education was the key to ...

Nate Allred took a crash course in conspiracy theories years ago when his college roommate watched fringe, right-wing TV news shows in the living room they shared. The more the roommate insisted that ...