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Researchers have compared the DNA of 27 Black people who lived at the Catoctin furnace between 1774 and 1850, finding a link between these enslaved Americans and nearly 42,000 living relatives.

Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, a professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, will lead NIH's infectious diseases institute. Colleagues say she has a wide breadth of knowledge and a joyful demeanor.

Doc profiles Ted Hall, a Manhattan Project physicist (and sometime Chicagoan) who shared atomic bomb secrets, then spent a lifetime dodging the feds.

A review of the ratings agencies’ track record suggests that they are not very good at their raison d’être: giving ratings.

Prof. Francesca Gino, a celebrated scholar studying dishonesty, was recently put on unpaid leave by Harvard, based on allegations that she had fabricated data in her studies; the allegations had been raised and discussed by three professors who run Data Colada (Uri Simonsohn of ESADE Business School in Barcelona, Leif…

In two cases challenging the use of race in college admissions, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the educational benefit of racial diversity is no longer what it once called a “compelling interest.”

She accused the defendants of defamation and gender discrimination.

Harvard Business School's Francesca Gino has many articles and books to her name, including "Rebel Talent: Why it Pays to Break the Rules in Work and Life."

Jack Smith, the US special counsel who on Tuesday filed a second federal criminal indictment against Donald Trump, is an Ironman-racing, Harvard grad with a reputation for winning tough cases against war criminals, mobsters and crooked cops.

After shocking the United States' elite young athletes by winning the NCAA national 1500m, Kiwi runner Maia Ramsden plots a path to the Paris Olympics. Sarah Cowley Ross reports.