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An engraving of the surrender of British forces to George Washington at the Battle of Yorktown in 1781.
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What happened at the end of the Revolutionary War? Here’s how Americans set up a brand-new country once the fighting ended

The United States came out of the Revolutionary War victorious. But building a new nation was very different from fighting a war.

Learning without a brain – how bacteria store memories and remember the past like artificial neural networks

Bacteria use strategies similar to artificial neural networks to use the past to adapt to the future.
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AI may quickly generate ideas, but working with people leads to more creative ones
A recent experiment found that people working with ChatGPT generated fewer unique ideas than those who collaborated with other humans.
Some options that might look like health insurance actually aren’t – and they may leave you stranded with large, unexpected medical expenses.
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‘I literally just leave my house’: In this neighborhood, homeowners say a noisy data center campus is disrupting their lives

The Salt Lake Tribune reports that residents near a noisy data center in West Jordan, Utah, struggle with constant hum and generator noise, disrupting their lives.

Trump wants to open nearly all national forest trails to dirt bikes and ATVs

Grist reports that Trump aims to open national forest trails to motorized vehicles, facing opposition from conservation groups concerned about ecosystem damage.

A special Los Angeles preview event for the movie 'Ramayana' on March 30, 2026.

There is no single way to tell the story of the ‘Ramayana.’ People from different religious traditions and cultural backgrounds have reimagined the epic in countless ways.