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With ICE cleared to use racial profiling, US citizens of color bring passports, anxiety wherever they go

Black, Latino, and Asian residents, even those who were born in the US, are taking their passports when they leave the house ...

Ben Shattuck on reaching into the past for ‘The History of Sound’

The South Dartmouth native has adapted his acclaimed short-story collection for a movie starring Paul Mescal and Josh ...

From terraced hills to collapsed soufflés, scientists decode Venus's mysterious surface

A research team led by geophysicists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography provides an explanation for ...

Earth’s inner core: nobody knows exactly what it’s made of – now we’ve started to uncover the truth

The iron-rich core at the centre of our planet has been a crucial part of Earth’s evolution. The core not only powers the magnetic field which shields our atmosphere and oceans from solar radiation, ...