One of the few requirements for Arkansas private schools is that they have an American flag and a flagpole. But millions in state funds go to the largely unmonitored schools while complaints about ...

July 15, 2026 • Trump's nominee faces the Senate health committee for her confirmation hearing on July 15. If confirmed, she will lead an agency dealing with workforce and leadership shortages and new ...

A new study reveals that two widely studied ultrathin superconducting materials are more sophisticated than they appear. Although they seem to behave like simple superconductors with a single energy ...

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In 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down what had been called the “heart” of the Voting Rights Act.

Mucosal barrier function consists of the combined effects of multiple extracellular and cellular processes that may be disrupted globally or in a targeted manner by physiological and ...

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What is Transit-Oriented Development? Transit-oriented development (TOD) is a planning and design strategy that consists in promoting urban development that is compact, mixed-use, pedestrian- and ...

Proteolytic enzymes play widespread roles in a variety of essential biological processes, both as nonspecific mediators of protein degradation and in the catalysis of specific cleavage events.