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The Dutch master Vincent van Gogh may have painted one of Western history's most enduring works, but "The Starry Night" is ...

Introduction: This study presents a comparative examination of the concept of the balance of power as addressed by two different schools of ...

The winners were displayed in a replica frame in the exact spot where 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' usually hangs, between two ...

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Drawing on mysticism and the new language of science, a generation of charismatic performers and con artists became ...

In a first, physicists have directly seen Hofstadter’s butterfly—a long-sought-after fractal in the quantum realm ...

The COVID-19 pandemic showed in real time, and with the highest of stakes, how hard it can be to decide if something is true.

Cristina Roccati graduated from the University of Bologna when few other Italian women earned degrees, and she taught physics ...

Alexandria Marquardt, a Ph.D. student at William & Mary's Batten School of Coastal & Marine Sciences, said of the findings: ...

Last year, Chinese astronauts Cai Xuzhe and Song Lingdong set a new record on December 17th by completing the longest single ...

We should take the Trump administration’s cuts to science funding seriously, writes Arturo Casadevall and Ferric C. Fang, ...