In 1975, only 1% of public schools had their own police officers. Today, 44% do. A large reason for the increase is the ...

A vast network of ocean currents nicknamed the "great global ocean conveyor belt" is slowing down. That's a problem because ...

Back in 1974, German researchers discovered peculiar chemical compounds, present as red pigments in soil bacteria from a ...

A theoretical astrophysicist from the University of Kansas may have solved a nearly two-decade-old mystery over the origins ...

In a new study, researchers at Osaka University have created the world's first compact, tunable-wavelength blue semiconductor ...

X-ray free-electron lasers produce pulses of light that are exceptionally bright, making them powerful tools for studying ...

Banks of computer screens stacked two and three high line the walls. The screens are covered with numbers and graphs that are ...

Regulations imposed to protect the environment may continue to have impacts even after they are repealed. And those lingering ...

Researchers in the Nanoscience Center at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, have used machine learning and supercomputer ...

Hydrogels, which are soft materials made of water-filled, crosslinked polymer networks, have a wide range of uses, from wound ...

Philadelphia's K-8 public school students are being taught a new literacy curriculum starting in the 2024-2025 school year.

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