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The Domain Name System, like most pieces of the internet, was designed to be distributed across many computers. Concentration…
Archaeologists have studied how astronauts use the International Space Station to improve its potential future successors.
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Uncontrolled inflammation is usually thought to be the culprit behind asthma. But in asthma patients who have survived intimate…
If you see a health claim that seems too good – or too bad – to be true, take a moment to step back and assess the evidence.
The memoir of Nathaniel Isaacs, a Jewish merchant who found himself shipwrecked in what is now South Africa, influenced…
Covert ops and military buildup in the Caribbean suggest Washington is eying a regime change. But are conditions ripe in…
President Trump reversed a long-held perception among US foreign policymakers that pressuring Israel should only be done…
Disaster recovery is harder on isolated islands. The Jamaican diaspora living in the U.S., U.K., Canada and elsewhere will…
With a new, mid-cycle redistricting war raging in state after state, the media and politicians focus on which party is winning…
Horror films teach us to confront real-life trauma and atrocities, not escape from them.
This recall affects America’s most prescribed drug. It’s the latest in a series of concerning manufacturing issues that…
One similarity between people who seek to reinforce gender binary and those who seek to expand beyond it is the idea that…
Moscow’s framing of its enemies as ‘Anglo-Saxon’ follows a strategy of misusing history to justify the invasion of…
Students – and all manner of professionals – are tempted to outsource their thinking to AI, which threatens to undermine…
Whichever side of an issue you’re on, it’s likely that at the root of what gets you fired up are deep, fundamental human…
Tardigrades make a unique damage suppressor protein that researchers are working to harness for medicine, space, agriculture,…
The US doesn’t currently have much ability to monitor what’s going on in the space around the Moon. An effort by the…