An ambitious U.S. government program is working to detect and track millions of tiny space junk pieces—down to the size of a ...

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Physicist Jess Wade explains the importance of recognizing female scientists on Wikipedia. She’s created more than 2,000 ...

The high court treating the children of a highly educated slice of the U.S. as equivalent to people who descended from the ...

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A 60-year-old man in Germany has become at least the seventh person with HIV to be announced free of the virus after ...

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Robert L. Nelson is professor of sociology and law at Northwestern University and MacCrate research chair at the American Bar Foundation. He studies law and inequality.

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Researchers combined the drug harmine with a medication similar to Ozempic to boost the number and function of human ...