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The opportunity to learn more about where we fit into the vastness of the cosmos is under threat from shortsighted decision makers who have politicized science.For much of the 20th century, governments around the world wanted to boldly go...

As the Bonn climate talks begin, John Vidal speaks to former president José María Figueres about Costa Rica's journey towards sustainabilitySay the name Figueres in Costa Rica and it's bound to get a reaction. José "Don Pepe" Figueres led...

When U.S. Marine Logan Thibault (Zac Efron) finds a strange woman’s picture, while on duty in Iraq, he realizes that by holding on to the pic he seems to survive when others around him don’t. “These things don’t just...

At the core of the Christian faith is the idea of  “God becoming man in Jesus.” When I became old enough to question my conditioning in my mid-teens, I instinctively felt this was wrong.I saw that making Jesus into...

Oxford neuroscientist Susan Greenfield argues that we need to snap out of our complacency and look at the unprecedented impacts of new technology on our brains.It is not unusual, these days, for children to spend five hours a day...

The BYU men’s soccer team kicked off their 10-day preseason international tour Friday when they boarded a plane for Costa Rica.“This trip is huge,” junior midfielder Antonio Niccoli said. “This is my third international trip so I know how...

“It was in Africa that the first tool was invented, the first fire lit by a human hand, the first crop planted, the first village established, the first language spoken,” says E. Thomas Lawson in “Religions of Africa.” And...

Popular hotel chain Riu Hotels & Resorts is planning to open four new hotels in Mexico, Caribbean and Costa Rica and overhaul four more in the two years.“Apple Vacations has had a long and successful partnership with Riu Hotels,”...

Racism and a legacy of colonialism are preventing the West from recognizing the potential of African innovation.Affordable technology is helping people all over Africa propel an economic revolution. Investment is pouring in from India, China, and other emerging markets....