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With online education, you don't have to go to MIT to learn from one of their top professors. You don't have to spend six figures or four years to get knowledge applicable to the career of your choosing. Education can co...

It isn't dangerous - but the plastic black hole is helping to demystify one of nature's weirdest objects and might have applications for energy-harvesting devices     

Fact 1: The primary ingredient of most solar panels is purified sand. Fact 2: Enough sunlight hits the Earth in an hour to provide all of humanity's energy needs for a year. So why isn't... --

(The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)) In the paper (entitled "Microbial Production of Short-chain Alkanes") published online in Nature on Sept. 29, a Korean research team led by Distinguished P...

(Seismological Society of America) A tiny chip used in smart phones to adjust the orientation of the screen could serve to create a real-time urban seismic network, easily increasing the amount of strong motion data coll...