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Deborah Unger covered technology for Business Week magazine in New York and San Francisco. More recently she worked for Transparency International, the anti-corruption organization, and ...

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Melba Phillips co-authored a paper with J. Robert Oppenheimer in 1935 that proved important in the development of nuclear ...

Fossilized vertebrae that were found in an Indian coal mine belonged to a gigantic and previously unknown snake species ...

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Facing budgetary pressure for its Mars Sample Return program, NASA has turned to private industry for ideas—perhaps with one ...

A philosopher who lived centuries before artificial intelligence might be able to help us understand the field's personhood ...

Movies and TV shows frequently depict physical and biological sciences well, but often depict psychological and brain ...