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Japanese physicists devise technology to discover axion dark matter.
A NASA robot on Mars sends back unusual findings, including timed magnetic pulses.
Fears and discoveries in translating an intimate world to the big screen. How experience helps you deal with people yelling at you. Why 21st century audiences love to be transported to Edwardian England, in spite of all the class hierarchy…
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Understanding cognitive development and stress in children can add context to systems of education.
yes. every kid.
The week-long global protest, which is calling for an end to the age of fossil fuels, is taking place in more than 160 countries today.
Are tiny homes just a trend for wealthy minimalists or an economic necessity for the growing poor?
An unexpectedly revealing find in Mongolia solves a longstanding riddle.
As more data comes in, the puzzle gets deeper and deeper. Whenever you set out to solve a problem, there are a series of steps you have to take in order […]
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These questions can help us think more critically about new developments in artificial intelligence.
Can Impossible Foods beat other brands — like Beyond Meat and Tyson — in the war to dominate the alternative meat industry?
The move comes one day before more than 1,500 Amazon employees are set to walk off the job as part of the global climate strikes.
Suicide rates in Puerto Rico have risen by a third since Hurricane Maria.
With little progress on other avenues to preventing mass shootings, one firm has employed architecture to save students.
The line-in-the-sand was drawn in sharpie, and the time to declare ‘no more’ is now. When you have a question about the physical world, there are a lot of different approaches […]
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Sometimes, academic expression can make people uncomfortable. But this tension is a feature, not a bug.
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