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China plans to send container ships along Russia’s northern coast, reviving environmental concerns about the fragile polar ...

F orty-seven years ago U.S. President Jimmy Carter stood grinning in front of a set of 32 bulky solar panels. It was 1979, and the oil crisis had sent fuel costs skyrocketing. Car ...

For decades, an influential theory blamed the Rapanui for their own downfall—a story made famous by Jared Diamond’s book Collapse. New evidence tells a different tale ...

AI decodes the mathematical ‘fingerprints’ of famous jazz musicians, from Chick Corea to Thelonious Monk A master musician’s ...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will soon launch to unravel the mysteries of dark energy and dark matter ...

Two American companies are pursuing rival manufacturing strategies for these long-promised cells in an industry China dominates ...

Hawaii rarely sees direct hurricane hits—if Lala strengthens, it will be just the third recorded hurricane to make landfall ...

We are rightfully told to eat more fiber. But our depleted gut microbiomes may not benefit from superhigh levels ...