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Earthquakes shook California this week. More could come, but predicting them isn’t easy.
Seismologists say more earthquakes could be on the way, but technological limitations makes it difficult to tell when they could strike.
A math equation that predicts the end of humanity
How much longer till we all die off? 760 years, give or take.
Border Patrol leadership reportedly knew about derogatory Facebook group for years
Agents reportedly flagged posts from the group to leadership as early as 2016.
Elizabeth Warren has a plan to narrow the wage gap for women of color
She joins Sen. Kamala Harris in making the problem a campaign issue.
Trump is considering issuing an executive order to keep citizenship question in the census
An executive order from Trump could argue that there’s a constitutional need for the citizenship question.
If aliens call, what should we do? Scientists want your opinion.
In the age of fake news, researchers worry conspiracy theories would abound before we could figure out how — or if — to reply to an alien message.
How stock photographers take a perfectly anonymous picture
The husband-and-wife team behind these stock images play both photographer and subject.
1998’s From the Earth to the Moon is the best fictional retelling of the Apollo program
The HBO miniseries doesn’t just tell you the story of the astronauts. It tells you the story of everything else, too.