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If NASA’s ambitious lunar exploration plans succeed, scientists will cover the moon with sensors—and find answers to several ...

Roger Camp of Seal Beach, Calif., is a poet, blues pianist, photographer and orchid enthusiast. When he’s not at home, he’s photographing in the Old World. His work has appeared in Spillway, Slant, ...

Robert Ghrist is a mathematician at the University of Pennsylvania. He works in applied algebraic topology and creates animations and visualizations of mathematics.

Newt Gingrich raised eyebrows with a social media post about using nuclear bombs to cut a new channel in the Strait of Hormuz ...

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A new study helps narrow down the reasons why Black people undergoing infertility treatment have fewer live births ...

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Christine Keiner is the Chair of the Department of Science, Technology, and Society at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

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A single subatomic particle from deep space had the same energy as a baseball pitch, and scientists still don’t know how it ...