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Although mountain lions are fearsome predators, the wild cats might also help keep humans safe in a surprising way. When the large carnivores—sometimes also called pumas, cougars or panthers—are ...

A mathematician working at Anthropic says he used the AI model Claude Fable 5 to uncover a remarkably simple counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture, a famous problem that has resisted ...

Papa Gio joins Mike and Jesse this week in the new studio. Mike has an update on a story from last week about a big trade at The National. Why won't Theo Von book Mike on his show? Mike's favorite PC ...

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A new study published in Nature Reviews Biodiversity by an international team of experts led by researchers from the ...

SOMERVILLE — Chelsea Quenneville can still recall Union Square as it was a decade ago: a chaotic crossing with cars and bikes barreling along four lanes of Somerville Avenue — a virtual “free for all.