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FactCheck.org has won the 2025 Sigma Delta Chi award for fact-checking from the Society of Professional Journalists. This is our fourth win in the fact-checking category and our fifth award from SPJ overall. Our winning entry of three stories by Senior Writer D’Angelo Gore and Deputy Director Robert Farley providedContinue Reading

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Citizen scientists have helped researchers solve a long-standing mystery about how parental care evolved in harvestmen. Using photos and observations from iNaturalist, scientists more than doubled the known cases of egg-guarding behavior and discovered that maternal and paternal care followed different evolutionary paths. The project, completed in just days withContinue Reading

Hidden barriers keep many Californians from coast, survey reveals

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As locals and visitors from across the globe flock to California’s famous beaches this summer, a collaboration of marine and social scientists, in partnership with grassroots organizations, has peeled back the so-called “coastal curtain” and revealed an unfortunate reality: Less wealthy and historically marginalized members of the public face persistent barriers to accessing the oceanContinue Reading

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Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Images Videos Audio Mosaics More Resources Mars Missions Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey More Mars Missions Mars Home 4 minContinue Reading

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Today, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams ruled that Traitor 47’s lawsuit asking for $10 billion from the IRS was manufactured to justify a “settlement” that included a nearly $1.8B slush fund to reward political allies.Robert Weissman and Lisa Gilbert, co-presidents of Public Citizen, issued the following statement in response:“Traitor 47Continue Reading

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Community health volunteers travel across remote northern Kenya to detect poliovirus before it can spread., Samburu County, Kenya – A motorbike roars to life, kicking up pale dust in the June heat of northern Kenya. Eroi Lemarkat accelerates along a dirt track after reports of another child who has suddenlyContinue Reading