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Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have contributed to new insights into the most long-lived cosmic explosion ever recorded. The event was a gamma-ray burst that remained ...

Holly Cummins gave a keynote at Goto Copenhagen where she urged developers to care about overlooked issues that shape their ...

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A groundbreaking study recently published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society has revealed an ...

Federal data shows post-pandemic student math scores are still down. Maine education officials are responding with a new effort to show students that math has real-world relevance.

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