Portraits of enslaved people from the 19th century are unusual. But a Connecticut artist named William H. Townsend decided…
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Black doesn’t appear in the visible spectrum of electromagnetic radiation. So why do we still see it?
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Belle da Costa Greene, who was JP Morgan’s librarian, became a lively fixture at Gilded Age mansions, country retreats,…
The world’s library of scientific papers is becoming contaminated as fraudsters use ‘paper mills’ to game scholarly…
For years, the Supreme Court has been expanding the boundaries of government aid to religious schools. St. Isidore’s case…
Space isn’t lawless, but the agreements governing it don’t cover everything nations will have to grapple with as they…
Writing computer code is helpful for people in many disciplines, but learning to program is hard. Large language models…
Federal grants and contracts are a major source of funding for nonprofit services in the US.
New restrictions on how children and teens can spend time online remain concentrated at the state level.