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Below Mount Jefferson and McKenzie Pass is a massive storehouse of water three times the size of Lake Mead, say Oregon researchers.

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Understanding the power of words during life's most challenging moments—break-ups, loss, grief, and fertility struggles.

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A new study carried out at the MIT Language Acquisition Lab offers a novel insight into the early acquisition of ...

This pithy word may only be three letters long, but it's deceptively complex. According to one lexicographer, it has 645 ...

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Omar came under intense scrutiny after a whiny Elon Musk shared a link to a fake video that supposedly showed her “conducting ...

The Supreme Court heard a case on Wednesday centered on a Texas measure that would require sites with adult content to implement a system to check a user's government ID. Critics claim that the ...