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As part of our monthly segments on ethics in science and technology, we'll look at the controversy over researchers studying crime up close and personal.

Is Star Trek really the next generation or simply a reflection of us today? We'll explore the history and culture of the popular science fiction television series as it relates to war, race relations and technology.

Researchers and the federal government are raising some tough questions about the way Arizona's schools educate students who don't speak, read or write English. Critics say the English immersion program is leaving thousands of children behind.

For many people, the election so far just hasn't been that interesting — and it might be even less so if Mitt Romney again rakes in the chips in South Carolina next week.

If all politics is local, all fundraising isn’t. Councilman Carl DeMaio headed north to Orange County last week to raise money for his mayoral campaign in San Diego.

The founders of Google, Facebook and Twitter are all male. Only 4 percent of one high-profile tech incubator's grants went to groups with a female founder. But the leader of a new startup accelerator for women says, "That next visionary is ... going to be wearing a skirt and a great pair of shoes."

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The space shuttle may be gone, but it's not likely to be forgotten — not if Hollywood has anything to do with it. Over the course of the last 30 years, the shuttle has shown up repeatedly on the Silver Screen.

Many plants listed as endangered species are available for sale online, a new study reports. This is encouraging for DIY environmentalists who want to save plants like the Florida torreya. But experts warn that moving plants to new habitats could create ecological problems and spread plant diseases.

Scripps Institution of Oceanography researchers aboard a ship in the southern Atlantic Ocean mapped previously uncharted undersea mountains, the tallest of which is higher than California's Mount Whitney, the research institute announced today.