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People in Mexico will still see the name Gulf of Mexico, with international users seeing both names, Google said. The change ...

Research on climate policy is growing exponentially. Of the approximately 85,000 individual studies ever published on policy ...

A high-quality genome assembly of Silene latifolia was generated by researchers at CNRS/Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 and ...

Google says it will comply with President Trump's order to change the "Gulf of Mexico" to the "Gulf of America," on Google ...

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William Playfair, the father of data visualisation, changed the way we understand information. His bar graphs, pie charts, ...

The body of water will be seen as the "Gulf of America" to users in the U.S., but viewers worldwide will see something ...

Scientists have recorded the largest structure in the known universe, Quipu, which is about 1.3 billion light-years wide.

Prominent health care organizations urge the Trump administration to restore important data sets on the Centers for Disease ...