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Olympic curling’s raging controversy, with Canadians in the unusual role of foul-mouthed villains, seems to have been put on ice. The special umpires summoned into action on Saturday to watch for the ...

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At times in the decades since cementing itself as a coffee city, Seattle hasn’t quite lived up to that reputation. This is not one of those times. At this point, great coffee is ...

On Dec. 25, 2002, Lewis Kay was in his lab at the University of Toronto, devising new ways to observe the invisible machinery of life. Or trying to, at least. The large molecules Kay has spent his ...

As snow powers the Winter Olympics, you probably underestimate the simple snowflake. For starters, snow isn't technically white.