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Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time—shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a misunderstanding of work by physicists Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen. In 1935, ...

Roads minister is not the most exciting of jobs. She wanted to make the most of her big day. The statement proposed to make life less free for youngsters, oldies and anyone who settles behind a ...

Representative Seth Moulton is a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee, but he learned about the U.S. military’s middle-of-the-night capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro the ...

President Trump has imposed punitive measures on several countries in the name of curbing what he characterizes as high fentanyl flows into the United States. In reality, supplies of the drug—and ...

The Delaware Supreme Court has restored a massive pay package awarded to Tesla CEO Elon Musk in 2018 that had twice been voided by a lower court judge. The package awarded Musk the option to purchase ...

House Republicans on Wednesday passed a partisan package of health care policies designed to provide a conservative alternative to extending the expiring ObamaCare subsidies. The legislation has ...

You've been waiting for one final delivery to complete that perfect holiday gift for your sweet Aunt Joan. The delivery - however - landed on someone else's front porch. With the holiday shopping ...

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Channel 13 learned of an event occurring near West Sahara Avenue and South Fort Apache Road through police scanners. Traffic cameras in the area showed police presence in the ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

Derek Jenkins, Rice University, Houston, Texas. Vivian Ho ([email protected]), Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. Hospitals rely on cash reserves to cover capital costs ...