Spacecraft exteriors that automatically heal from radiation damage would change the game − one material shows promise.
A car fails to yield as a family attempts to cross a road in Long Beach, Calif.
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The heat comes from everywhere when you’re active outside on hot days – the Sun’s rays, the air around you, the ground and even your own body.
Police arrest hundreds, including members of the Jewish group Not In Our Name, at a pro-Palestinian protest in Brooklyn on April 23, 2024.
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American foreign aid to Israel has long relied on the support of American Jews. But American Jews have never been unified in their support for Israel or about Israel’s role in American Jewish life.
When it comes to vaccines and immune health, the results aren’t too good to be true.
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From drawing to gardening and woodworking, self-expression can lower stress, improve mood and increase self-confidence.
Carvings made over decades by Basque herders are endangered as their canvas, the aspens, are at risk.
Sawtooth Mountains, 2011, Idaho Basque Arborglyphs Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Albertsons Library, Boise State University
Herders carved names, slogans, nude silhouettes and more into the trees around them during lonely seasons in the mountains. Now, researchers rush to find and record the arborglyphs before they disappear.
Ants foraging for nectar on a Bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum).
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Ferns have evolved a mutually beneficial relationship with ants, but this happened late in their evolution. A recent study shows that old dogs can learn new tricks.
Baseball fans clear the stands as lightning strikes near the Colorado Rockies’ stadium in 2019.
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What really happens when lightning strikes cars, what to do if you’re out in the open or on a beach, and other tips for National Lightning Safety Awareness Week.
Edmonton Oilers defenseman Evan Bouchard and center Connor McDavid during a game against the Dallas Stars on May 25, 2024.
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A scholar of nonprofits explains why she’s concerned that the decision in the Fearless Fund case could discourage all efforts focused on diversity, equity and inclusion.
At the end of her professional career, Lynn Conway was professor emerita of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan.
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The trailblazing engineer was co-inventor of a technique for designing computer chips that laid the groundwork for the computing revolution.
Influencers extoll the benefits of drinking raw milk over pasteurized milk, but there isn’t substantive evidence to support these claims.
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Since the 1930s, the federal government has made payments to victims of financial hardships and social injustices. But for those suffering from the harms of slavery, the US remains silent.
An “E-Group” construction at the ancient Maya site of Caracol, in present-day Belize.
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From the racism and poverty of the Jim Crow South, Willie Mays rose to the height of fame and respect as perhaps the country’s greatest baseball player – one who inspired a president.
People participate in an immigration rally in Homestead, Fla., in June 2023.
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Biden’s executive action will shield approximately 500,000 undocumented spouses of US citizens, as well as 50,000 children, from deportation and give them the legal right to stay in the US.
Sacred site of the Wixárika people in Real de Catorce, San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
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A historian of astronomy writes about the role of astronomical events in Indigenous cultures − and also the exploitation of their sacred traditions in present times.
A lot of lead from gasoline, house paint and industrial emissions has ended up in soil, and it poses serious health risks.
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The new level won’t trigger automatic cleanups, but it sets a lower threshold for taking precautions to reduce lead exposure.
The national flags of some NATO countries fly during an Air Force exercise in Germany on June 11, 2024.
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Since 2020, a team of legal researchers has collected more than 12,000 cases involving enslaved people and more than 40,000 cases that cite those cases.