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Policymakers and families are taking stock of what worked last year, what didn’t, and what still needs fixing. For millions of aging Americans and their loved ones, the conclusion is the same: aging ...

For nearly five decades, Steven Spielberg has helped define what alien stories mean to movie audiences. Sometimes they arrive as cosmic miracles. Sometimes as existential threats. Sometimes as ...

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We may not have found any definitive proof of extraterrestrial life just yet, despite plenty of hope among scientists. But if we were to ever come to an answer in the form of alien biology or ...