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A $200,000 unrestricted physics endowment to the Louisiana Tech University College of Engineering and Science honors the life ...

Growing up near the World Bank’s agricultural development project in Anyigba (present day Kogi State, Nigeria), Mark Akubo and his friends would visit the aerodrome to watch light planes take off and ...

When we imagine contact with extraterrestrial intelligence, we tend to picture messages: radio signals, mathematical codes, or perhaps a universal language waiting to be discovered. But what if alien ...

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Modern winter jackets are also a testament to centuries-old physics and cutting-edge materials science.