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This ancient ecosystem showed that the ice sheet had melted to the ground in northern Greenland within the past million…
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If you look at the reasons people buy art, almost none of them have to do with the physical work.
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Young people in Myanmar have rallied daily since a Feb. 1 coup, demanding democracy. Now, ever more middle-class professionals…
The U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether a ban on the third-party collection of mail-in ballots is legal. The practice…
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Poor indoor air on tribal lands can cause a range of respiratory illnesses, including viral infections. Here's how people…
New research uncovers sizable gaps in how college students from different ethnic backgrounds trust the people in charge…
Even Colonial-era abolitionists like Alexander Hamilton enjoyed centuries of generational wealth built from slavery.