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The Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico transmitted the most powerful known interstellar message in 1974. The facility's ...

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The Chandra X-ray Observatory is the darling of high-energy astrophysics. Famed for providing unequaled x-ray views of ...

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Antimicrobial resistance could claim 39 million lives by 2050, yet the pipeline for new antibiotics is drying up. U.S. policy ...

To calculate just how much generative AI contributes to this problem, Tzachor and his colleagues examined the type and volume ...

Examining body camera videos at scale reveals racial differences in how police treat drivers during traffic stops—and what ...

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A mysterious electromagnetic mechanism may be more important than the firing of neurons in our brain to explain our awareness ...

A Biden administration proposal that would require employers to provide cooling measures under extreme heat conditions may be ...

Wastewater in several Californian cities, including San Francisco and Los Angeles, recently tested positive for bird flu. But ...