In 1993, a British mathematician solved a centuries-old problem. But he couldn’t have done it without the help of many…
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Antitrust suits against Google for its advertising practices center on the technology for buying and selling online ads.…
A forensic technique more often used at modern crime scenes identified blood residue from large extinct animals on spearpoints…
When fruit flies see other dead fruit flies, their life spans are cut short. Other species also undergo analogous physiological…
Two glass researchers explain how glass is made, the unique properties of glass and how those properties have allowed it…
We humans like to think that our language is original, but we absorb large amounts of it from others and liberally repeat…
Maybe it was a nuclear war, devastating climate change, or a killer virus. But if something caused people to disappear,…
An anthropology course explores how peoples and cultures around the world use nature-based medicines to heal.
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The International Atomic Energy Agency says the plant has enough water to last for several months. What happens afterward…
Glioblastoma is the most aggressive type of brain cancer, causing significant decline in cognitive function. New research…
A number of theories try to explain how cultural differences come to be. A new study quantifies how such factors as resource…
Public data about individual donors’ political contributions supports the perception that American academia leans left.
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People with Down syndrome have an extra chromosome 21. Understanding the effects of those triplicated genes could help improve…
Millions of people worldwide are exposed via soil and water to arsenic, whether naturally occurring or related to pollution.…