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In 1967, 2 million Swedes started driving on the other side of the road 0

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National Parks commemorate ties to WWII ahead of 85th Pearl Harbor anniversary 0

Rainbow Serpent rock art grew larger as Europeans colonized Aboriginal Australia 0

Heisuke Hironaka obituary: mathematician who smoothed out geometry’s complexities 0
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Credit: Smithsonian Institution Archives Heisuke Hironaka, a prominent figure in algebraic geometry, was renowned for his landmark 1964 proof of the “resolution of singularities”. His work provides a way to unravel complicated phenomena in geometric objects, such as cusps, spikes and self-intersections. This fundamental result is a standard ingredient in research across a wide swathe
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Forecasters recreate the weather that made D-Day possible 0
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The surprising science behind Japan’s vending machine obsession 0
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