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New Yorkers have a rare chance to reshape the rules that have let NIMBYs stall housing production for decades.

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Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our ...

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A fifth planet has been detected within the habitable zone of a neighboring star, where conditions could perhaps support ...

Object Details author Kanas, Nick 1945- Contents World views and the solar system -- Earth-centered world views in classical Europe -- Non-European world views -- Earth-centered world views in the ...

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An international team of scientists have provided an unprecedented tally of elemental sulfur spread between the stars using ...