Signals from a distant world have pushed the search for alien life out of science fiction and into the realm of testable ...

Clear out your shelves for a bumper new crop of books by authors including Naomi Klein, Rebecca Solnit and Xand Van Tulleken, ...

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The backstory: The law began as Senate Bill 53, authored by state Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco, to ...

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As each year winds to a close, The Inquirer and Mirror takes a look back on a month-by-month basis at the highs and lows, the joy and heartbreak, that made ...

The Natural History Museum of Denmark houses a unique collection of 70,000 pieces of amber from various time periods.