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The Hubble Space Telescope celebrates 35 years of groundbreaking discoveries, stunning imagery, and a lasting impact on ...

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An interest in understanding the role that the Milky Way played in Egyptian culture and religion has led University of ...

From coin flips to river levels to the placement of freckles, many events appear random at first glance—but dig a little deeper, and limits to the chaos start to emerge. Mathematician Michel Talagrand ...

In the search to understand how the universe came to be, a new theory is rewriting the script. Instead of one massive, fiery ...

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Two-way star Shohei Ohtani returned to the Los Angeles Dodgers’ lineup Sunday for the series finale against the Texas Rangers, activated off the paternity list after his wife gave birth to the ...

Newsreels told the story of World War II, and the early still photography of Matthew Brady chronicled the horrors of the Civil War. But with the American Revolution, which began 250 years ago this ...