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Way back in 2008, Canon — the stalwart Japanese camera brand — released its EOS 5D Mark II model, which heralded a new era of digital photography. It was one of the first DSLR (which stands for ...

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Historians working with an artificial intelligence assistant have begun tracking the spread of astronomical thinking across Europe in the early 1500s. The analysis contributes to challenging the “lone ...

As the Oxford astrophysicist Chris Lintott wryly notes in “Accidental Astronomy,” our very existence depended on a celestial accident some 66 million years ago, when “an asteroid coincidentally ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court in New Orleans is taking another look at its own order requiring a Texas county to keep eight books on public library shelves that deal with subjects ...

Chris Lintott tries to observe everything from asteroids zipping through the Solar System, to distant galaxies. The way the cosmos reveals its secrets is a story, he thinks, deserves an audience. Luck ...

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ST. TAMMANY PARISH, La. — For two years, the St. Tammany Parish Public Library System has been caught in the middle of a book battle. “We stand before you today because we, in short, are under attack, ...

CHEYENNE — Laramie County School District 1 has completed the long-awaited review process for the first nine nominated books under the district’s new library book policy, designed to prevent students ...

An 11-year-old boy who says his autism is his "superpower" has sold more than 700 copies of his book and donated £1,000 from the proceeds to an astronomy charity. Aston was eight when he wrote Things ...