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The next space race is not about making rockets faster, bigger or more capacious, but about reusing them reliably and cheaply. The US is well ahead, but can China catch up?
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Researchers are presenting an atomic clock whose precision far exceeds the previous record: Over 55 billion years, it would be off by only one second. This opens up new applications.
The use of racially discriminatory housing maps in the 1930s, a practice known as "redlining," perpetuated multigenerational cycles of poverty and segregation that continue today. While redlining shaped cities, its legacy does not fully explain current urban patterns of privilege and disadvantage, a new study finds.
In 1984, NASA initiated the SEEDS project aimed at exploring how the space environment affects plant growth. Participants, comprising approximately 3.3 million students from diverse educational…
Classical computers can temporarily store the information required to perform specific tasks in a short-term memory component known as RAM (random access memory).
From coffee shops to customer service call centers, most people believe they have a good sense of how long a service will take.
Does the sex of your child influence your marriage? New psychological research suggests that having a daughter prompts fathers to invest significantly more time and energy into their romantic partnership than having a son.
