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Discover how political decisions and defense initiatives like the U.S.-based Iron Dome project create impactful investment ...

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NASA astronaut Anne McClain has delivered an extraordinary visual reminder of nature’s raw power from an uncommon vantage ...

A chilling simulation has revealed what would happen if the world lost all forms of oxygen for just five seconds, and while ...

Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...