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A column by Winona LaDuke, an Ojibwe writer and economist on Minnesota’s White Earth Reservation. She also is co-curator of ...

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An illustration of the hazy, pink-hued gassy giant GJ504b, which may be a massive planet or a brown dwarf orbiting a nearby ...

A biologist specializing in invasive species has partnered with a former Pentagon strategist in pushing NASA to construct a ...

What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that ...

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