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Amid a big agency push to use AI models in weather prediction, an AI-generated forecast graphic with errors was pulled from ...

In 13th- and 14th-century Europe, art was mostly connected to the church, and was made to help people feel closer to God.

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Once a revolutionary invention, it's now filling up our oceans and killing thousands of whales, birds, turtles... Just how much plastic do we have around us?

Dark energy may be the most mysterious substance ever proposed, but many scientists are certain it exists. Why?

Peculiar 60,000-year-old Stone Age arrowheads unearthed in South Africa could be the earliest known use of poison-laced ...

President Trump quickly blamed Good for her own death at the hands of an ICE agent by saying that she was a “professional ...

I fear that skepticism and scorn have been elevated to the upper echelons of power, where fateful decisions are being made, writes Heidi Stevens.