A Bible from 1525 with an incorrect map changed the way Europe imagined borders and territories for centuries.

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BI Incorporated, a subsidiary of for-profit prison company GEO Group, will help ICE pinpoint the locations of immigrants.

Electric vehicle owners are learning that where they live can matter almost as much as what they drive. New data on weather, batteries, and real-world driving shows that states in the American South ...

We conclude that brain states are shaped by local circuit mechanisms, large-scale connectivity and neuromodulation. A unified multiscale theory of cortical dynamics is relevant not only for ...

By the middle of this century, the climate many of us grew up with will be gone, replaced in some regions by conditions that strain the basic limits of human biology and infrastructure. Scientists now ...

One of the most detailed 3D maps of how the human chromosomes are organized and folded within a cell's nucleus is published ...

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"I think every astronomer is going to find something of value here, as NASA's missions enable the world to answer fundamental questions about how the universe got its start, and how it changed to ...

Launched in March, NASA's SPHEREx space telescope has completed its first infrared map of the entire sky in 102 colors.

After 10 years, members of the 4D Nucleome consortium have successfully completed the first phase of a project that aims to ...