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Mexico's new President Claudia Sheinbaum on Wednesday expressed concern about supplies of drinking water in the country's ...

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World skiing's governing body joined forces with the UN's weather agency on Thursday in a bid to feed its meteorological ...

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A research group at the Finnish Museum of Natural History is investigating the adaptive potential of plant species amid a ...

In June, X-rays began to shine again at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Advanced Photon Source (APS), a facility where ...

Faced with the prospect of an extensive, and expensive, seismic safety retrofit for its 1960s-era downtown headquarters, L.A.

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