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A geographer explains how maps’ place names, such as the Gulf of Mexico and Denali, are decided ...

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A climate office at the Department of Health and Human Services has been shuttered, and its staff was placed on ...

DOGE’s Elon Musk should turn his $2-trillion hatchet to wasteful and perilous U.S. nuclear weapons modernization plans ...

For those who have wrestled a bulky couch around a tight corner and lamented, “Will this even fit?” mathematicians have heard your pleas. Geometry’s “moving sofa problem a ...

The U.S. National Science Foundation has unfrozen grant funding, but it continues to scrutinize research projects, sowing ...

Two judges have ordered the Trump administration to lift a freeze on spending, including at the Environmental Protection ...

An experiment shows that bonobos can understand when a human lacks knowledge and point them in the right direction ...

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President Trump’s new tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China could hit the electric vehicle, solar, battery and wind industries ...

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