A study published in Journal of Politics in Latin America provides a critical assessment of how recent social, political, and ...

The chances of intelligent life emerging in our universe—and in any hypothetical ones beyond it—can be estimated by a new ...

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

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

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 ...

Book bans in U.S. schools and libraries during the 2021-22 school year disproportionately targeted children's books written ...

Fossil fuels are the leading driver of climate change, yet they are still heavily subsidized by governments around the world.

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