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A man launches into a profanity-laced tirade against masks in a supermarket in Arizona before being run out of the store by another customer. A 49-second video posted on Facebook Monday that has been viewed more than 65,000 times shows a man in a white hat and blue shirt calling …

Applied mathematician Eva Lee had her day before the court. VILLAR LOPEZ / EFE / NEWSCOM By Jeffrey MervisAugust 12, 2020, 3:50 p.m. A federal judge today gave a lighter sentence than the government requested to Eva Lee, a retired professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) who …

The college football mad Midwest is a region that runs roughly from Central Pennsylvania to Western Nebraska and encompasses all the cornfields, factory towns, and major cities there. They have been playing there since 1879 when the University of Michigan defeated Racine College 1-0 (do not ask). Over the next …

Antarctica is the only continent discovery so far not reached by coronavirus. Thousands of researchers travel there every year during the summer season. The region’s ice sheet is a treasure trove of climate data. One continent on Earth remains untouched by coronavirus. Antarctica. Scientists want to keep it that way, …

Humble dirt could pack an unexpected climate punch, according to a new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. An experiment that heated soil under a tropical rainforest to temperatures expected in the coming decades found that warmer soil released 55 percent more planet-warming carbon dioxide than near unheated areas. …