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Research conducted 20 years ago by a former NJIT dean is being put to new use in the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech.

Postal services should be expanded for the public good, not diminished by special interests

250 years after his birth, Beethoven’s music still has an exhilarating, subversive power. His revolution of artistic form was intimately linked to his sympathy for the political revolutions of his time.

New research shows that July may have been the deadliest month for young adults in modern American history.

The emotions and strategies behind record-setting bets on a MAGA victory that never came.

Fox News has taken a further step back from Donald Trump’s baseless allegations of election fraud with a bizarre apparent legal retraction aired during shows hosted by some of the president’s most fervent supporters.

The question of whether parents and grandparents should receive a wage for childcare within the family has been asked repeatedly for at least half a century.

Pension-fund activism is a dead-end. Organizing and empowering workers is still the only way to revive the labor movement.

Officially, the United States doesn't have a secret police, but in actuality it has an abundance of them.

Modernist Cuisine's next project will attempt to analyze all styles of pizza, try them all and see what works and what doesn’t and why. The goal is to produce “the most comprehensive pizza cookbook in the world.”