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Four students from School District Five’s Center for Advanced Technical Studies will represent South Carolina at a national science conference in Chicago.

"It's a new day in Washington," says Gretchen Goldman, president and CEO of the Union of Concerned Scientists. "There's huge opportunities for science, for democracy, for getting accountability for ...

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As most of the world knows, January 1989 brought Alaska a spell of what lore-makers would call a Great Blue Cold. While the ...