Imagine that you have three boxes: one containing two black marbles, another containing two white marbles and a third ...

A finger-sized clay cylinder from a tomb in northern Syria appears to be the oldest example of writing using an alphabet ...

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Federal climate databases remained largely intact during President-elect Donald Trump’s first term. Scientists say the ...

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But formal AI assistants could empower larger groups of human collaborators to tackle the biggest problems by breaking them ...

Called Olbers’ paradox, the seemingly simple mystery of the sky’s darkness is something that stumped astronomers for ...

Oil rigs around the world are habitats for marine species. When they stop producing oil, should they be removed or allowed to ...

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The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy sparked a revolution in scientists’ understanding of the origins of ...

The Trump administration could embolden Republicans to make sweeping changes to how the affordable care act functions and is ...