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Predicting earthquakes has long been an unattainable fantasy. Factors like odd animal behaviors that have historically been thought to forebode earthquakes are not supported by empirical evidence. As ...

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INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Mears Machine Corporation has achieved a global breakthrough: the capability to additively manufacture the largest single-piece, non-welded powder bed laser ...

Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign is powered by a South Asian political machine with ties to a Pakistani radical Marxist political movement — and foreign influence may have provided the tipping point ...

PRINCETON, N.J, Oct. 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Learning Ally, a national nonprofit committed to unlocking the potential of students with learning differences, is proud to exclusively sponsor a ...

California education officials are tasked with a difficult mission over the next few months — finding the best way to figure out which 4-year-olds need extra help learning English. What makes this a ...

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as software written for a traditional supercomputer. A quantum computer at ...

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On a scorching July afternoon in Shanghai, dozens of Chinese students hunch over tablet screens, engrossed in English, math and physics lessons. Algorithms track every keystroke, and the seconds spent ...

Fentanyl, a widely used synthetic opioid, can be fatal even at low exposures, and in recent years, the illegal abuse of fentanyl and its analogs has become a serious global concern. Scientists headed ...