Strong spatial skills are critical for everyday tasks and across many careers—they also strengthen students’ math performance ...

(L-R) LASC Mosk Courthouse,' Kevin Costner in ‘Horizon- An American Saga — Chapter Two’ Getty/Warner Bros. Increasingly it seems that Kevin Costner and Horizon II stunt performer Devyn LaBella aren’t ...

What just happened? Engineers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have developed a method for measuring heart rates that requires no wristband, smartwatch, or medical device. Instead, the ...

At a special work session and meeting Wednesday, Sept. 3, the Summit Board of County Commissioners discussed a ballot measure that would allow them to use lodging tax revenues for road repairs. The ...

Fixing climate change is no small task — just ask carbon removal developers like Mitti Labs. The New York-based startup has developed technology to measure how much methane is released by rice paddies ...

A group of surgeons has proposed measuring how often hospitals discharge post-surgical patients to nursing homes as a way to rate quality. The goal would be to reduce post-acute admissions and save ...

The Trump administration is preparing to use tariffs and travel bans as reprisals against countries that support an upcoming agreement to put fees on shipping pollution. Those moves, outlined in an ...

Scientists recently estimated, for the first time, that the North Atlantic Ocean contains millions of tons of nanoplastics. To measure it, they used a detection method that picks up the chemical ...

Sens. John Fetterman, D-Pa., and Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., have introduced a bill that would generally require those conducting in-person business to accept cash as payment from customers. "Any person ...

Rep. Addison McDowell, R-N.C., has introduced a bill which would declare that engrossed bills, executive orders, pardons, and commutations may only be legally signed by the president, and an autopen ...

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