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Patti Smith is overcome with emotion singing It's a Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall at the Nobel ceremony

President Obama has been saying ‘Merry Christmas’ for the last eight years… even in Hawaiian.

Check out what Science's editors deemed the top results of 2016, including our Breakthrough of the Year! 

Most systems and machines people design break from time to time. That also applies to the United States' nuclear weapons.

The festival trailer for the award-winning documentary feature about Daryl Davis, a black musician who befriends members of the KKK and other white supremacists in search of the answer to his question: "How can you hate me if you don't even know me."

Leonard Cohen's lyrics are both prophetic and startlingly contemporary: Everybody knows that the war is over / Everybody knows the good guys lost / Everybody knows the fight was fixed / The poor stay poor, the rich get rich / That's how it goes / Everybody knows

Its complex politics and vibrant music have attracted the attention of the world. But Cuba, the largest island nation in the Caribbean, is also home to the unexpected. It’s a place of stunning contrasts: mysterious caves and bright boulevards, sweltering fields and cool forests, hard challenges and high energy.

A pioneer of computer science, Ada Lovelace created the very first computer program in the mid-1800s and also foresaw the digital future.

Coates talks about his new cover story for The Atlantic, based on interviews with President Obama, which reconsiders Obama's legacy after the election of Donald Trump.

A very real segment on Samantha Bee's Full Frontal about very fake news.