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When politicians redraw congressional district maps to favor their party, they may secure short-term victories. But those ...

The Ariane 6 rocket on Wednesday blasted off carrying Europe's next generation satellite for warning against extreme weather ...

Scientists from the Illinois Natural History Survey and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources have updated the state ...

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Skyrmions are localized, particle-like excitations in materials that retain their structure due to topological constraints (i ...

An international team of astronomers using NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer), has challenged our understanding ...

In a breakthrough that could significantly improve medical imaging techniques used to detect cancer and monitor treatments, ...

In better times, droves of young winter-run Chinook salmon would travel 300 miles downstream from the Sacramento River, ...