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American medical students are volunteering to help COVID-19 health care workers manage the home front. ...

A Smithsonian Institution exhibit titled Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World has been expanded in it...

NASA, the U.S. space agency, will name its next-generation space telescope in honor of Nancy Grace Roman....

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The X-37B orbital test vehicle has successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, for its sixth miss...

Another milestone in U.S.-Japan relations will be reached this year in Nagoya, where the U.S. Consulate w...

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Scholars around the world who have been part of the State Department’s Fulbright Program are using their ...

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Researchers from the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute have won a $10 million, five-year c...