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One of nuclear fusion’s biggest advances wouldn’t have happened without some impeccable scientific artistry. In December 2022, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California ...

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Today’s alternate readings honor St. Hildegard the mystic. The first reading, from the Song of Songs, was presumably chosen ...

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The singer-songwriter Jens Lekman released this song more than 20 years ago. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "IF YOU EVER NEED A STRANGER (TO SING AT YOUR WEDDING)") JENS LEKMAN: (Singing) If you ever need a ...

In the opening scene of the 1941 mystery Citizen Kane, the eponymous protagonist, played by Orson Welles, clenches a snow globe in his hand as he utters his last word: “rosebud.” The glass-encased ...

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