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Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of international researchers have discovered chemical fingerprints of gigantic ...

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There is an important and unresolved tension in cosmology regarding the rate at which the universe is expanding, and ...

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The Boston area lost several luminaries in 2025, but their contributions won’t soon be forgotten. From Kitty Dukakis’s ...

By Ben BRAKO For centuries, African spiritual philosophy was corralled at the margins of global thought—reduced by colonial ...

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