Despite countless programs and initiatives, rates of entrepreneurial intention—a marker of how willing people are to start ...

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A new radiocarbon study has clarified the timing of the colossal Thera eruption, placing it before Egypt’s New Kingdom.

Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr had an ongoing rivalry about the true nature of quantum mechanics, and came up with a thought ...

While much has been written about the race to modernize industry and agriculture in fascist Italy, the history of animal ...

While much has been written about the race to modernize industry and agriculture in fascist Italy, the history of animal husbandry during this period ...

FROSTI is a new adaptive optics system that precisely corrects distortions in LIGO’s mirrors caused by extreme laser power.

While much has been written about the race to modernize industry and agriculture in fascist Italy, the history of animal husbandry during this period has largely been overlooked by scholars. The ...

Researchers confirm Bohr's predictions over Einstein's theory in a groundbreaking one-atom experiment, revealing insights ...

Czech playwright Karel Čapek’s 1920 “R.U.R.,” a science fiction play about the effects of labor on humans, shows we’re still tackling the same stuff more than a century later. Čapek’s piece imagines ...

In the 1920s, Sarasota was small, Southern and segregated. The Ku Klux Klan’s national resurgence did not pass the town by: In one local parade, residents marched down Main Street in white hoods, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Daniel J. Sherman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (THE CONVERSATION) In ...