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As a high school teacher, I appreciate what school jokes can do in the classroom. They lighten the mood and help me accomplish one of my main teaching goals: keeping the kids awake. I'm also a comedy ...

How much sunlight reaches the ground beneath a forest, beside a highway, or on a snowy mountain slope? In Switzerland, scientists now have an unusually detailed answer. A new national map shows light ...

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