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Deal Settles Homeowners’ Suit Over Nuclear-Weapons Plant
Thousands of homeowners have reached a $375 million settlement over their claims that plutonium releases from the Rocky Flats nuclear-weapons plant in Colorado damaged their health and devalued their property.
The Wealthy in Florence Today Are the Same Families as 600 Years Ago
New research from a pair of Italian economists documents an extraordinary fact: The wealthiest families in Florence today are descended from the wealthiest families of Florence nearly 600 years ago.
Can AI Help Translate Technological Advances into Strategic Advantage?
Artificial intelligence an help companies tackle well-defined problems, but knowing which problems to address requires curiosity, imagination, and a business culture that encourages these conversations, says CIO Journal Columnist Irving Wladawsky-Berger.
U.K. Proposal to Fight Drug-Resistant Bacteria Has Some Doubters
Pharmaceutical companies that don’t invest in their own antibiotic research should contribute to a common fund that would back the development of novel drugs, a U.K. government review said.
Cuba’s Cigar Industry Isn’t Ready for Its American Moment
With the end of the U.S. trade embargo looming, the Cuban government aims to boost production, but tobacco fields lie fallow. 74
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Science Group Vouches for GMO Foods
A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine says GMO crops are safe for people and don’t seem to directly harm the environment.
Mind and Matter
Aliens Rate Earth: Skip the Primates, Come for the Crows
Alison Gopnik, thinking about humans’ role on Earth, daydreams about an alien visitor who’s entranced by dinosaurs and crows and shrugs off humanity.
‘Genius by Stephen Hawking’ Review: Science Meets Reality TV
Ordinary people try to reason like history’s great scientific thinkers and arrive at answers to life’s big questions.
Men’s and Women’s Genes Help Explain Why Cancer Affects Them Differently
New research findings could eventually lead to strategies for preventing and treating cancer that take a patient’s sex into account.
Art
Turning Science Into Art
How the scientist Alexander von Humboldt inspired Frederic Edwin Church’s artistic brilliance.