Science Discoveries
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Transcontinental Railroad: How Iron Rails United a Coast-to-Coast Nation
WASHINGTON, July 14 — The first transcontinental railroad in the United States was built between 1863 and 1869.…
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Spanish Biochemist’s Tortoise Genome Study Opens New Aging Research Lines
OVIEDO, July 14 — Against this backdrop of accelerating longevity research, a Spanish biochemist whose work has fundamentally…
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May 10, 1869: Golden Spike Unites Nation at Promontory Summit
PROMONTORY SUMMIT, Utah Territory, May 10 — The final spike was driven here today, completing the first transcontinental…
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Dodge’s Legacy: The Engineer Who Shaped the Transcontinental Railroad
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, July 14 — A century after his death, the work of Grenville M. Dodge still…
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Norwegian conscript data shows IQ scores falling since the 1975 birth cohort
OSLO, July 14 — A study published last year by researchers at the Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic…
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Astronomers detect erythrulose, the first true sugar found in interstellar space
COPENHAGEN, July 13 — A Danish astronomer has been formally recognized for a discovery that reshaped the field…
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How ENIAC’s 18,000 Vacuum Tubes Launched the Electronic Computing Age
PHILADELPHIA, July 11 — The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, known as ENIAC, was completed in 1945 at…
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Alan Turing Defined Computation and Broke Nazi Codes
LONDON, July 11 — Against this backdrop of rapid advances in artificial intelligence, the intellectual foundations laid nearly…
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Engineering the Impossible: How the Panama Canal Was Built
PANAMA CITY, July 10 — The Panama Canal stands as one of the most audacious and strategically consequential…
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The Wright Brothers’ 1903 Flight and the Skies It Opened for Everyone
KITTY HAWK, North Carolina, July 10 — For communities across Asia that have watched aviation transform how families…
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Central Pacific Carves 1,659-Foot Summit Tunnel Through Sierra Nevada
SACRAMENTO, July 10 — The black powder smoke has long since cleared from the Sierra Nevada, but the…
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Louis Pasteur Developed Germ Theory and the Rabies Vaccine
PARIS, July 10 — Against the backdrop of the 19th century’s great scientific awakening, one figure stands apart:…
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Painting Satellites Black: Surrey’s Vantablack Answer to a Crowded Night Sky
ISLAMABAD, July 6 — Satellite constellations promise to connect the world’s most remote communities to the internet, but…
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Loss of GATA6 Protein Lets Colon Cancer Cells Spread to the Liver
NEW YORK, July 8 — A discovery about how colorectal cancer spreads to the liver is reframing what…
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Chinese Laborers Carried the Central Pacific Railroad Over the Sierra Nevada
BEIJING, July 8 — The story of the transcontinental railroad in the United States is often told as…
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The Pacific Railroad Acts: Lincoln’s Gamble That Bound a Continent in Iron
WASHINGTON, July 8 — Against this backdrop of a sprawling nation still scarred by civil war, the United…
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Smallpox Eradication Launched by English Physician’s Observation
LONDON, July 8 — Two centuries after an English physician first tested his theory on a young boy,…
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How 6PPD-Q Forms: From Tire Wear to Ozone Reaction
WASHINGTON, July 7 — The rubber that wears off your tires as you drive isn’t just disappearing. It’s…
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Northwestern Chemists Solve 30-Year Rye Pollen Mystery Behind Anti-Tumor Molecules
EVANSTON, Illinois — The rye plant, a cereal crop widely grown for its grain, has held a secret…
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Chemists crack 30-year rye-pollen anti-tumor compound mystery
EVANSTON — Nearly 30 years after researchers first discovered two unusual molecules in rye pollen that showed promise…
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Plasma Wind Tunnel Tests Show What Reentering Satellites Leave in the Atmosphere
WASHINGTON, July 7 — A single satellite constellation could be injecting hundreds of metric tons of aluminum oxide…
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Scientists Urge FCC to Pause Orbital Data Centers Over Stratospheric Pollution
ISLAMABAD, July 7 — Environmental scientists are raising fresh concerns about a hidden cost of the expanding satellite…
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Tire Chemical 6PPD-Quinone Stunts Coho Embryos and Kills Newly Hatched Salmon, Study Finds
SEATTLE, July 7 — The figure that matters: 0.8 micrograms per liter. That is the lethal concentration of…
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Toxic Tire Chemical 6PPD-Q Threatens Coho Salmon Survival
SEATTLE — On the surface of a worn tire, a chemical transformation is underway, and researchers say it…
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