A controversy is swirling at a Texas university. The trigger? A flowchart. On Dec. 1, the new chancellor of the Texas Tech University system sent professors a diagram laying out a chain of approval ...

From left: Michael Frazer, Iona Clemente and Dale Giancono, with the meteor in front of them. Source: Michael Frazer For three days they scoured the desert, searching the red dirt in Western Australia ...

Divorce can complicate estate planning (among other things). The good news is that your ex is automatically cut out of your will in most states. “Under New York law, once a divorce is finalized, your ...

Legal and financial experts have revealed how couples who meet and remarry later in life can avoid nasty inheritance battles. Americans 65 and older are increasingly getting remarried following the ...

While SIMPLE IRAs are in some ways similar to their cousins, traditional and Roth IRAs, they also share some features with workplace retirement plans such as 401(k)s. Understanding your plan's rules ...

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Can paying attention establish a new field? Learn about Thomas Hunt Morgan, the first person to definitively link trait inheritance to a specific chromosome and his white-eyed flies. Table 1 provides ...

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Once a person has addressed the emotional questions around what to do with the inheritance, I can begin to create a custom financial action plan. Educating people about their new wealth is part of ...