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Not your grandmother's nuclear reactor. A drawing of Oklo's proposed Aurora nuclear power plant, which would produce enough electricity for about 1000 homes.

Smaller Nuclear Plants May Come With Less Stringent Safety Rules

Proposed new emergency preparedness rules would allow nuclear plants closer to where people live. Companies say the plants are safer, but they need the rule changes for a viable business model.

This colorized transmission electron micrograph image shows SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes the disease COVID-19. This specimen was isolated from a patient in the United States. Particles of the virus (yellow) are emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab (pink).

Fact check: The theory that SARS-CoV-2 is becoming milder

A look at the data that omicron is less severe. What does that mean for the future of SARS-CoV-2 — and the pandemic?

The Intertwining Of Christianity And Slavery

Racism is a hot topic in our times (as if it ever really cooled down). And a historical perspective helps us better understand the very concept of race.…

Madeleine Albright, seen here in 2009, served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and secretary of state.

Madeleine Albright kept up her trailblazing work long after being secretary of state

Albright, who arrived in the U.S. as an 11-year-old refugee, became the first woman to serve as secretary of state. She died on Wednesday at the age of 84.

Lynn Nottage photographed at A Broadway Celebration at the Times Square EDITION, in December 2021.

Two-time Pulitzer winner Lynn Nottage turns a triple play in New York City

Nottage, the only woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama twice, has a new play on Broadway, an opera at Lincoln Center Theater and a Michael Jackson musical opening soon.

As It Was: Chinese Exhume Gold Beach Bodies for Return Home

In September 1929, the body of Tuey Chung Fook was disinterred from the cemetery in Gold Beach, Ore., because of the Chinese desire that their dead be…

Liz Phair On Demanding A Voice In 25 Years Of 'Guyville'

Liz Phair's Exile In Guyville is being reissued with a massive 25th anniversary box set. It features seven LPs, the official release of the Girly-Sound tapes and a book detailing the album's history.

Lou Reed performs in New York City in 2004. "I wanted to write a book that took Lou ... seriously," says biographer Anthony DeCurtis.

Biographer Sought To Write The Kind Of Book Lou Reed 'Deserved'

"It wasn't like I had to go looking for the drugs and the sex," Anthony DeCurtis says. "Lou wrote about it ... so I felt it was fair game." DeCurtis' new book is Lou Reed: A Life.

Photos of Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre victims sits at a small memorial near the school on Jan. 14, 2013 in Newtown, Conn.

Sandy Hook ushered in new era of conspiracy and lies, author finds

Following the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary school, journalist Elizabeth Williamson says, conspiracy theorists tormented the victims' families by accusing them of being actors.

Cemetery Prohibits Burial of African-American Veteran

Raised in rural Arkansas, World War II Army veteran Pete Williams went to work in 1943 for the Southern Pacific Railroad in Klamath County, Ore. He died…

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