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Donald G. York was a longtime University of Chicago astronomer and astronomy professor who co-founded the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a wide-ranging mapping of the solar system that produced a ...

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Maddy Schaffrick was 4 years old when her grandma asked what sport she wanted to compete in at the Olympics. Schaffrick didn’t hesitate. It didn’t matter, she said. She just wanted to go. As a child, ...

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In case you somehow missed it, everyone’s favourite business-based reality show returned to our screens last night as The Apprentice launched its landmark 20th series. As it’s such a special occasion, ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers using a synchrotron at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have been able to recover pieces of the Hipparchus star catalog that had ...