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Brighton Secondary School student Mitch Evans signs with Major League Baseball’s Detroit Tigers
Few high school students can call themselves professional baseball players – but year 12 Brighton Secondary School student ...
The problem with linking climate change to a specific event
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which assembles the most rigorous climate science in periodic ...
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Science Makes the U.S. a Great Nation
One of history’s dark jokes is that the Roman Empire, for all its vaunted accomplishments, only made a single great ...
US children much more likely to die than in similar countries, study finds
Causes such as premature birth and sudden unexpected death were significantly higher among US infants, while firearm-related incidents and motor vehicle crashes were far more common among ...
Meet the ‘Bomb Lady’, the mother of America’s bunker busters
Its ability to produce a sustained, high-temperature blast meant soldiers didn’t have to clear these dangerous areas on foot, ...
American kids have become increasingly unhealthy over nearly two decades, new study finds
A new study shows that the health of U.S. children has deteriorated over the past 17 years, with kids today more likely to ...
6 months later, 12 ways the Eaton and Palisades fires changed Southern California
Questions linger about whether many of the displaced will return to communities. Also, is the soil healthy? Is the air clean?
How this long-lost Chinese typewriter from the 1940s changed modern computing
The concepts in the MingKwai typewriter underlie how Chinese, Japanese and Korean are typed today. The typewriter, patented ...
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See the First Breathtaking Celestial Images From the Vera C. Rubin Observatory
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory released a sneak peak of some of the images it is unveiling, the first set of space images from ...
Three years of science: Ten cosmic surprises from NASA's Webb telescope
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...
Could the first images from the Vera Rubin telescope change how we view space for good?
The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its extraordinary ability to map the universe in breathtaking detail. It is set to reveal secrets previously beyond our grasp.