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Duke awarded four faculty with undergraduate teaching awards at the Arts & Sciences Council meeting Sept. 11: Robert B. Cox Award: Kristin Stephens-Martinez, associate professor o ...

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Nederland High School physics teacher Wendy Lapeyrolerie earned national runner-up status in a National Geographic essay ...

That scattering is called the Tyndall effect. It’s the same phenomenon that makes the sky or ocean look blue, even though the ...

Katherine Bourzac is a science journalist based in San Francisco. Her coverage of microbiology, physics, chemistry and the environment has appeared in Nature, Scientific American and MIT ...

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A new study from North Carolina State University identifies vertebrate hemoglobin in bone extracts from two dinosaurs and ...

The idea was that high-powered lasers would propel tiny probes to 20 percent of the speed of light, impelling them with ...