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An international team of astronomers has conducted optical and near-infrared observations of a supernova designated SN ...

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Science is entering a massive publishing boom, in large part due to artificial intelligence. New research published in the ...

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The gap between rich and poor has reached historic highs. According to the World Inequality Report 2026, released in recent ...

Scientists are urging governments to act immediately on plastic pollution, warning that waiting for a binding Global Plastics ...

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Any time you use a device to communicate information—an email, a text message, any data transfer—the information in that ...

In what came to be called the "Christmas Valley miracle," the Lake Tahoe Basin communities of Christmas Valley and Meyers ...