High school students from across Guam stepped into the shoes of forensic scientists last week, processing a "crime scene" as ...

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During femtosecond laser fabrication, photons are mainly absorbed by electrons, and the subsequent energy transfer from electrons to ions is of picosecond order. Hence, lattice motion is negligible ...

Tanner Gordon, a University of Wyoming master’s student studying botany, recently earned first-place recognition for his ...

Scientists in China have performed an experiment first proposed by Albert Einstein almost a century ago when he sought to ...

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Materials science is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the understanding and application of the properties of matter. Materials scientists study the connections between the underlying ...

The world is a pretty fascinating place. But there are so many things happening all at once that you’d be forgiven for ...

Adderall, Ritalin and other stimulants prescribed for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder seem to work on brain areas involved with wakefulness and reward ...

A call to transform schools from shelters of safety into sanctuaries of solidarity (Part I of this article appeared on 10 Dec ...