Editor's note
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Voters in France have narrowed the field of presidential candidates to two. On May 7, either political newcomer Emmanuel Macron or far right leader Marine Le Pen will be that country’s new president. Sociologist Mabel Berezin explains the significance of yesterday’s vote and the stark choice French voters will face in two week’s time.
After 13 years orbiting Saturn, the Cassini mission is shifting into its “Grand Finale,” dipping inside the planet’s famous rings where it will ultimately incinerate this fall. University of Montana’s Dan Reisenfeld describes the amazing images and discoveries the spacecraft made – including what he calls the “most thrilling moment of my professional career.”
And finally, why the fact that more people than ever are single is cause for celebration. Bella DePaulo of the University of California Santa Barbara has spent 20 years studying single people. Her conclusion? “The rise of single living is a boon to our cities and towns and communities, our relatives and friends and neighbors.”
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Emily Costello
Senior Editor, Politics + Society
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First round winners: Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen.
AP/Christophe Ena (Macron)/Michel Spingler (Le Pen)
Mabel Berezin, Cornell University
Marine Le Pen of the far right National Front and independent Emmanuel Macron advance to the run-off on May 7.
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Paul Smith, University of Nottingham
After a historic battle, we now know that one of two people will be the next president of France.
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The Champs-Élysées was shut after a terrorist attack on April 20.
Etienne Laurent/EPA
Eglantine Staunton, University of Leeds
The killing of a policeman in a terror attack has heightened tensions as France chooses its next president.
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Science + Technology
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Dan Reisenfeld, The University of Montana
As the probe starts its 'Grand Finale,' a Cassini team member describes the amazing discoveries it made about the ringed planet and its many moons.
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Leah Ceccarelli, University of Washington
If you've only ever paired the idea of 'rhetoric' with 'empty,' think again. Rhetoricians of science have concrete techniques to share with researchers to help them communicate their scientific work.
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Suzanne Bell, West Virginia University
Forensics has a way to go before it's a mature, academic science. Attorney General Jeff Sessions just terminated an independent commission charged with helping it get there.
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Jonathan Wai, Duke University; Heiner Rindermann, Chemnitz University of Technology
While the media glamorizes famous college dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, the reality is that most successful people in the U.S. went to – and finished – college.
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Charles R. Venator-Santiago, University of Connecticut
Over the years, Puerto Ricans have in fact been granted three different types of U.S. citizenship, but questions about their rights and equal treatment as citizens still remain.
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