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The Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico transmitted the most powerful known interstellar message in 1974. The facility's ...

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Examining body camera videos at scale reveals racial differences in how police treat drivers during traffic stops—and what ...

To calculate just how much generative AI contributes to this problem, Tzachor and his colleagues examined the type and volume ...

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The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy rose to fame through an incredible combination of circumstances ...

A Biden administration proposal that would require employers to provide cooling measures under extreme heat conditions may be ...

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