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Legal and criminal justice experts said a ruling by a federal judge last week revealed conduct by immigration agents that evokes the civil rights era. By Stephanie Saul A protester detained, her bra ...

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Cuttlefish attract prospective sexual partners by creating a pattern on their skin, based on the orientation of light waves.

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In the early 1990s, Keith Willmott and a friend, both undergraduate students from the United Kingdom, arrived in Ecuador with ...

As Immigration and Customs Enforcement was racing to add 10,000 new officers to its force, an artificial intelligence error in how their applications were processed ...

High-salt wash buffer: 500 mM NaCl, 0.1% SDS, 1% Triton X-100, 2 mM EDTA, 20 mM Tris-HCl (pH 8) LiCl wash buffer: 0.25 M LiCl, 1% NP-40 (or IGEPAL CA-360), 1% DOC, 1 mM EDTA, 10 mM Tris-HCl (pH 8) Low ...

A popular tradition in Irish names could help you trace your Irish roots. Our ancestors in Ireland had a very strong tradition of naming the eldest child in each family. It’s really interesting to see ...