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The United States has almost 2 million people behind bars in prisons, jails and detention centers—the largest such population ...

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An elusive particle that first formed in the hot, dense maelstrom of the early universe has puzzled physicists for decades.

It's still one of the coolest things I ever saw. I was in the U.S. Air Force in the 90s, and November 1998 saw me deployed to ...

Scientists at EMBL Grenoble and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) have developed a new method for using in ...

Until recently, a gap existed in the world map of amber discoveries: the Antarctic continent. But that gap has finally been ...

In an office full of new coworkers, someone suggests going out for pizza. One person is extra hungry and gobbles up a slice ...

Apple trees, like many perennial plants, endure a prolonged juvenile stage before reaching maturity, during which they ...

Every year people ask me, "why haven't the leaves fallen yet?" If autumn starts on September 1, then by early November winter ...

Once every spring, a few days after the full moon, corals of the great barrier reef release eggs and sperm simultaneously—a ...