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A Harvard professor argues that successful science teaching starts with understanding student misconceptions.

A new type of genetically engineered crop is tempting farmers to use a weedkiller illegally. The illicit chemical use has damaged nearby crops and provoked conflict among neighbors.

The prison cell had been upgraded to a luxury three-room pad with plasma screen TV, library and kitchen.

Finland's highest mountain is Mount Haalti, but the peak is actually in Norway. So, Norway is considering giving the summit over to its relatively flat neighbor. Finland is turning 100.

Aparecida Schunck, whose daughter is married to billionaire Bernie Ecclestone, had been kidnapped and held for ransom. Police said Sunday that Schunck had been found unharmed in Sao Paulo.

More than 6 inches of rain in less than three hours created a torrent that swept through downtown Ellicott City over the weekend. At least two people were killed.

The rhetoric on the stage at both conventions was dramatized by interactions between protesters and police on the streets.

A woman meets a mysterious stranger as she studies declassified documents about one the most polluted sites on earth. Three generations of women are...

Rock historian Ed Ward says that musicians in Düsseldorf, Germany, including Klaus Dinger of the band Neu!, helped start a new German pop movement in the 1970s and '80s.

"We have to face the truth," Tsai Ing-wen said to representatives of the native tribes of Taiwan. She said her government offered its "fullest apology" for the treatment of aboriginal Taiwanese.