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An international team of scientists has synchronized key climate records from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to unravel the ...

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Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a new technique to better understand how electrons interact within materials. By ...

Compiled by Jeremy Engle Here’s how a team of librarians collaborated with teachers to help students enter our Open Letters Contest — and to create their school’s own competition.

New research from the University of Oklahoma addresses and resolves light emission challenges commonly encountered in quantum ...