Pundits decried the Supreme Court justices for not focusing on Donald Trump’s conduct when they heard oral arguments in Trump’s immunity case. But a legal scholar says they were just doing their job.
How cancer vaccines are delivered into the body influences their effectiveness.
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Cancer vaccines have gained much interest among scientists but face a number of hurdles. A new mRNA vaccine for glioma offers a step forward in training the immune system to fight cancer.
Stained glass designed by Geoffrey Webb depicts Lewis Carroll’s characters in All Saints Church in Daresbury, Cheshire, England.
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Research has shown that anti-gun violence programs have more success when they address root causes such as generational poverty, easy access to guns and a lack of affordable housing.
A painted rainbow peels off a wall in Laramie, Wyo., where nearly 26 years ago Matthew Shepard was killed.
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Hate crime legislation is often touted as a progressive tool to end violence and champion inclusion. Its origins tell a more complicated story.
The Maya used mirrors as channels for supernatural communication. In this image, a supernatural creature speaks into a cracked, black mirror.
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Cassava’s many assets would seem to make it the ideal crop, except for one drawback: It’s highly poisonous. Human ingenuity has made cassava edible for millennia.
Trash collected in a 2019 cleanup that removed 24,000 pounds (10,000 kilograms) of garbage from Mount Everest.
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These electric aircraft take off and land vertically so they don’t need runways. And they promise a quieter, more accessible and less polluting form of short-distance air travel than helicopters.
PacifiCorp’s Hunter coal-fired power plant in Utah is scheduled to shut down by 2032.
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Lawsuits are inevitable, but an environmental lawyer explains why the EPA’s new power plant regulations are on solid ground.
Some Gen Zers and millennials might not identify as readers because they assume the reading that they do doesn’t ‘count.’
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It turns out that identifying as a reader can be more about community, wealth and gender than how much someone actually reads.
An interaction with police caused one young man’s heart rate to spike to 130 beats per minute, and it stay elevated for 30 minutes.
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A social science researcher followed a dozen teens from different neighborhoods in North, West and Northeast Philadelphia, tracking their family histories and heart rates as they navigated daily life.
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks on March 30, 2024, in Los Angeles.
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The Democrats and Republicans try to keep them off the ballot. But third-party campaigns can inject new ideas and force major parties to incorporate a wider array of interests.
A favorite class focuses on the tendency to see meaningful patterns where there aren’t any, such as constellations of stars.
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A professor shows science students how humanities classes are the real stem that other disciplines sprout from. They learn that critical thinking and skepticism don’t stop when they leave the lab.
A Tesla crash test car after a side impact.
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In Gaza, Sudan, Haiti and elsewhere around the globe, famine affects increasing numbers of people.
People carrying Palestinian flags and banners gather in front of the International Criminal Court on Oct. 18, 2023.
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Prosecuting leaders indicted for war crimes is difficult. But the trial of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic in the early 2000s offers a potential playbook.
Teens say ‘for you’ algorithms get them right.
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A powerful storm system produced dozens of destructive tornadoes over three days that tore apart homes in Oklahoma, Nebraska and Iowa. A meteorologist explains the conditions that fueled them.
Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, in yellow, holds the world’s speed record for humans.
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