See Where the Gerrymandering Wars Have Redrawn U.S. Congressional Maps

Eight states have redrawn their district lines since last summer, and two more are pushing to use new maps ahead of the ...

Louisiana Approves Map Eliminating a Majority-Black District

A Supreme Court court ruling last month rejected the state’s previous congressional map as an illegal racial gerrymander and set off a redistricting race across the South.

Great waste in the Great Lakes: How plastic pollution is clogging our waters

More than 40 million depend on the Great Lakes for drinking water. Yet plastic pollution in the lake water isn’t regulated, and manufacturers are moving to dramatically increase the amount of plastics ...

Final site of Noah’s Ark spotted in centuries-old map — matching real-life location long speculated as the buried Biblical relic

Archaeologists could be one step closer to locating Noah’s Ark’s final resting spot after noticing a peculiar feature on a 440-year-old world map called the Planisphere. Created in 1587 by Italian ...
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Data centers pose threat to Great Lakes water supply

A new report shows that AI Data Centers are coming to the Midwest, and they could put immense amounts of stress on the Great Lakes’ water supply. The report estimates that 150 billion gallons of water ...
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Scientists found the brain doesn’t start blank, it starts full

The brain’s memory center may begin life more like a crowded web than an empty canvas. Researchers discovered that early neural networks in the hippocampus are dense and seemingly random, then become ...