Science Discoveries
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Atmospheric Water Generation Turns Thin Air into Drinking Water
NEW YORK, July 9 — The figure that matters: $13.5 billion by 2028. That is where the global…
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Study Finds Persistent Ideological Divide by Race and Education
WASHINGTON, July 9 — A new analysis of decades of survey data reveals a clear and persistent ideological…
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Physicist John Preskill coined ‘quantum supremacy’ in 2012
PASADENA, July 8 — On the Caltech campus, John Preskill is a theoretical physicist. He has spent decades…
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Ferdinand Magellan’s Voyage: First Around the Globe
LISBON, July 8 — Against this backdrop of a world still charting its own uncertain seas, the legacy…
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Columbian Exchange post-1492 reshaped global ecology
MANILA, July 8 — When historian Alfred W. Crosby coined the term “Columbian Exchange” in 1972, he gave…
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Study Shows Daughter’s Influence On Gender Equality Views In Japan
TOKYO, July 8 — A study published in the journal Political Behavior examines how having a daughter shapes…
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Spanish Allies and Local Enmities Toppled the Aztec Empire
MEXICO CITY, July 8 — A new assessment of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire has drawn…
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Richard Feynman: The Nobel-Winning Physicist Who First Proposed
PASADENA, July 8 — The intellectual architecture of the modern world rests on foundations laid decades ago, often…
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FDR’s New Deal: Hoover Dam, TVA Transform America’s Rivers
WASHINGTON, July 8 — The strategic transformation of the American landscape during the Great Depression remains one of…
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1930s Mega-Engineering: Hoover Dam and TVA Tamed Rivers
BOULDER CITY, Nevada, July 8 — The Hoover Dam stands 726 feet tall on the Colorado River at…
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The Wright Brothers: Inventors of the First Powered Airplane
KITTY HAWK, N.C., July 8 — The salt wind off the Atlantic still scours these dunes, but the…
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University of Tokyo Study Links Parents to Gender Attitudes
TOKYO, July 8 — A new study from the University of Tokyo has used quantitative analysis of survey…
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GATA6 Gene Acts as Molecular ‘Identity Keeper’ in Intestinal Cells
NEW YORK, July 8 — A discovery about how colorectal cancer spreads to the liver is reframing what…
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Frank Whittle: The Engineer Who Invented the Turbojet Engine
LONDON, July 8 — The patent for the turbojet engine, filed by a British Royal Air Force engineer…
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Treaty of Tordesillas split world between Spain and Portugal
LISBON, July 8 — A treaty signed 532 years ago this week continues to shape the political map…
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Sputnik Launch Sparks U.S. Science Education Overhaul
MOSCOW, July 8 — It was a beep. A simple, rhythmic beep from the sky that shattered America’s…
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Transcontinental Railroad’s 1869 Completion Reshaped America Forever
WASHINGTON, July 8 — The completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869 accelerated the displacement of Native American…
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Transcontinental Railroad Cost $115M, Transformed Nation
WASHINGTON, July 8 — The transcontinental railroad cost an estimated $115 million to build. That figure, equivalent to…
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Golden Spike Ceremony Completes First Transcontinental Railroad
PROMONTORY SUMMIT, Utah Territory, May 10 — The golden spike has been driven. On May 10, 1869, at…
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Chinese Workers Formed 80% of Central Pacific, Building U.S. Transcontinental Railroad
BEIJING, July 8 — The story of the transcontinental railroad in the United States is often told as…
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Pacific Railroad Acts of 1862-1867 Funded Transcontinental Line
WASHINGTON, July 8 — Against this backdrop of a sprawling nation still scarred by civil war, the United…
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Railroad Revolution: How 1869’s Transcontinental Link Shrunk America
NEW YORK, July 8 — $115 million. That is the figure that matters when investors look back at…
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Charles Babbage And Ada Lovelace Designed First Computer
LONDON, July 8 — The mechanics of modern computing, the machine you are reading this on, trace back…
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Christopher Columbus’s 1492 voyage opened Americas to Europe
GENOA, July 8 — Five centuries after his death, the mechanics of Christopher Columbus’s enterprise still reward scrutiny.…
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