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This year’s Abel Prize, an annual lifetime achievement award for mathematics that is bestowed by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and was modeled on the Nobel Prize, has been given to Gerd ...

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Whether it’s a canary’s chirp or a treefrog’s croak, humans tend to prefer many of the same sounds that animals do themselves, a new study finds ...

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Gallup’s annual world happiness ranking for 2026 explores how the use of social media influences well-being ...

For 20 years, this computational linguistics competition has inspired new generations of innovators in AI and language ...

Let’s say you somehow manage to sleep through all of the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s March Madness and wake up ...

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A century after Robert Goddard’s first-ever launch of a liquid-fueled rocket, two NASA experts weigh in on what his legacy ...