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The Hubble Space Telescope spied a large atmospheric phenomenon on Saturn: a decagon surrounding the south pole.
When a patient's DNA is read, it is compared with a reference version of the human genome. This allows geneticists and rare disease experts to look at a list of places where the patient's DNA differs. Most variations will be harmless and shared with millions of other people, but some can cause ...
Vice President Vance on Thursday quipped he was “really looking forward” to seeing former President Biden at a New York City memorial service marking the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. “As you can probably guess, I’m really looking forward to hanging out with Joe Bi...
Investment advisers would no longer be prohibited from offering services to public pension funds if they made recent political donations to state and local elected officials, under a proposal released Thursday from the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Babies smell wonderful—at least to their parents. An international research team of Ilona Croy, Tomasz Frackowiak, Thomas Hummel and Agnieszka Sorokowska investigated why teenagers lose this special olfactory advantage and has now been awarded an Ig Nobel Prize for the research.