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Buddhists celebrate Dharma Day the anniversary of Buddha's first sermon after his enlightenment. In this teaching, he shared ...

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Scientists recently found an example of evolution in real time, tucked away in the collection drawers of the Field Museum in ...

The curious minds at What If explain the profound environmental shifts caused by the return of the Argentinosaurus.

Jamelle Bouie, a columnist at the New York Times, has recently been drawing a lot of parallels between what’s going on in the ...

Data from Zillow shows that between the first three months of 2020 and 2025, home values in southern San Jose increased by ...

The venture, privately funded to start, is now run by the University of Arizona. And today, scientists there are quietly ...

Beneath layers of waste, landfills around the US have been reaching scorching temperatures, spewing toxic gases and geysers ...

An award-winning project exposed how a US-governor's pig farming company polluted groundwater, revealing issues of political ...