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Yolanda Leyva’s protests 13 years ago against the erection of a statue of Juan de Oñate, a Spanish conquistador, cost him relationships and contributed to increasing division in his community. And in the end, it all seemed in vain: after months of meeting with others, he learned that the statue …

Dennis Boyer, a former lawyer who retired years ago to his farm in southwestern Wisconsin, says there is no question who he will vote for and many people he will speak to in November: it is Joe Biden. Boyer, an independent voter who described himself and said he did not …

Has your science teacher ever asked you to randomly place several planets around the sun while drawing a picture of the solar system? Have you ever wondered, as a child, if the planets are trying to outdo themselves in their race to revolve around the sun? Have you ever rushed …

MIT has designed a robot that is capable of disinfecting the floor of a 4,000-square-foot warehouse in just half an hour, and that could one day be used to clean its local supermarket or school. © Alyssa Pierson / CSAIL In tests, the CSAIL team’s robot could disinfect a 4,000-square-foot …

FP TrendsJuly 03, 2020 11:13:52 IST Scientists recently observed a star that appears to have disappeared. Using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) from the Southern European Observatory, the researchers discovered that a massive unstable star in a dwarf galaxy 75 million light-years away vanished without a trace. Several teams of …