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New research from Michigan State University finds that popular music has gradually become less explicit about emotion and ...

In a discovery that could offer a new way to control quantum properties in two-dimensional materials, researchers at Cornell ...

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Researchers used the European XFEL to create X-ray flashes that were not only extremely short but also reached record ...

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A University of Missouri astronomer is leading a team of 130 researchers from 62 institutions—including NASA, the California ...

The writer Malcolm Gladwell popularized the term "tipping points" to refer to the moment when a trend or social behavior ...

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Quantum computers represent a next step in the fast-paced evolution of technology. Using quantum bits (qubits), they have the ...