Neuroscientist Ishmail Abdus-Saboor discusses efforts to understand how skin contact can be painful or pleasurable, and what touch-obsessed naked mole rats might teach us about human social behavior.
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Elvis Brooks’ case was an egregious example of a wrongful conviction, civil rights attorneys said. But Louisiana’s attorney general maintains that Brooks and other exonerees are guilty — and therefore don’t qualify for any money from the state.
In Senatobia, Mississippi, where police killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley, community members had urged leaders to rein in the police. Are they listening now?
BP has locked out about 800 refinery workers in Whiting without pay for months. The hardline tactic is raising fears about the future of union power.
Defense Department accounts posted the biblical quote “SEND ME. ” The Pentagon won’t say if its proselytizing is a message about the Iran war.
Any level of Iranian control would mark a major geopolitical shift in Tehran’s favor.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s reelection as prime minister would hasten the illiberal drift.
Experts say political uncertainty makes the Trump-backed plan untenable, for now.