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In the nearly two years since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned federal abortion rights in the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, restrictions on the health care procedure have ...

Quarterback Patrick Mahomes wears the same pair of red underwear on every National Football League game day. After donning the undergarment during a successful first season in 2017, Mahomes continued ...

As protests of the war in Gaza have erupted on university campuses over the past few weeks, we see once again the idealism, ...

Researchers say this may be the first observation of a nonhuman animal purposefully treating a wound with a medicinal plant ...

Some extensions of the Standard Model exhibit similar discrete symmetry breaking, wherein the scalar field representing the ...

Famine is affecting an increasing number of people in Gaza, Sudan, Haiti and elsewhere around the globe, and its development ...