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A report published today by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law shows that 53% of transgender youth between the ages of 13 and 17 in the U.S.—approximately 382,800 young people—live in 29 ...

Researchers at the University of Maine and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are ...

Engineers have long battled a problem that can cause loud, damaging oscillations inside gas turbines and aircraft engines: ...

Agricultural waste that is usually burned or left to rot could play a far bigger role in tackling climate change if it were ...