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The Dreck Equation reveals the hidden layers of federal regulation—guidance, grants, contracts, antitrust, PPPs, IoT ...

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As a young officer in the French and Indian War, Washington was involved in a devastating friendly fire incident. Military ...

The flash in the Georgia sky in June, described by witnesses as a fireball, traveled hundreds of millions of miles through ...

The fireball was detected by the satellite on June 26, 2025, above the town of Oxford, Georgia, using an instrument to map flashes of lightning from orbit. The object was flaring in its trajectory due ...

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Two new papers analyze fossils found in Canada and Kenya, respectively—vastly different environments for the preservation of ...

On the Greek island of Ithaca, archaeologists recently uncovered new evidence that suggests ancient travelers once made real-life pilgrimages to the supposed home of Odysseus, Homer ’s famous wanderer ...

A team of scientists teamed up to date and identify the collection of more than 6,000 fossils, placing them between 131,000 ...

Nefertari was the beloved wife of Rameses II, and her extravagant tomb proves it. Its restored paintings tell an interesting ...

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