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Without the theorem of the excluded middle, all kinds of difficulties arise. In fact, many mathematical proofs are based on ...

In some of its most ambitious work yet, the James Webb Space Telescope looked to spot a planet in a potentially habitable ...

When serious accidents happen in magnetic resonance imaging scanners, it’s usually because people ignore one very important ...

If the EPA abdicates its responsibility to address climate change, it will harm health and the planet in exchange for ...

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But an innovation that’s at least 3,000 years old—terracotta—is emerging as a low-cost, low-energy alternative. Once used by ...