Twenty-five years ago, a consulting firm came to St. Louis at the request of civic and economic development leaders who had begun to notice a pattern that was hard to ignore. The region had real ...

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Physicists at Peking University have uncovered a new way to confine light far beyond conventional limits — without relying on ...

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Scientists have discovered a bizarre planetary system where a rocky world orbits farther out than giant gas planets, defying ...

For who knows how long, many of the enigmatic giant stone jars of northern Laos stood open and undisturbed. Exposed to the sky, they offered few clues about who made them or what they were for. One ...

Trove of fossils discovered in Canada sheds light on "when life first became large, complex and unmistakenly animal." ...

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A decade ago, we spotted an exoplanet that could be the most habitable world yet discovered. Now we're about to find out if ...