Since the close of World War II, more than 115 people have died from encounters with unexploded ordnance in the North Sea—but ...

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President Joe Biden bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom on 19 of the most famous names in politics, sports, entertainment, civil rights, LGBTQ+ advocacy and science.

In July, physicists at Germany’s Forschungszentrum Jülich and Korea’s IBS Center for Quantum Nanoscience (QNS) reported that they had fabricated a quantum sensor that can detect the electric and ...

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