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We should defend Western Civilization's best achievements. Let us start with something obvious from which we all benefit: Let us defend science, says blogger Adam Frank.

Grad students are the engines of America's scientific and technological prowess — with an amazing return on investment, says professor Adam Frank.

Tasting rooms have been nearly empty when normally they'd be packed.

Author Kim Stanley Robinson deserves a place as a true visionary: He has done more than just write good science-fiction — he's mapped out new territory in what it means to be human, says Adam Frank.

As history has shown, political and ideological repression passes — but scientific knowledge remains, says astrophysicist Marcelo Gleiser.

Scientists put a lot of effort into uncovering the history of these tiny bits of matter, in the hopes that it will tell us something about the universe, says astrophysicist Marcelo Gleiser.

Brought in to restore peace and stabilize the western hemisphere's poorest nation, the U.N. force, which at its height had more than 7,000 troops, has left a mixed and sometimes deadly legacy.

The new Spider-Man movie comes pretty close to perfection in honoring all that the Spidey comics meant to his many fans, like this once-upon-a-time, 12-year-old, science-obsessed kid, says Adam Frank.

The U.S. Census Bureau released a trio of reports Tuesday on income, poverty and health insurance coverage. All three measures showed improvement. Real median household income increased by 3.2 percent in 2016 over the previous year, and now stands at just over $59,000. The official poverty rate fell for the second year in a row to 12.7 percent.

The prospect that the U.S. and its allies could impose new sanctions on Russian oil pushed energy prices sharply higher. The average price of gasoline in the U.S. hit $4.06 per gallon.