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Education

For these students, using data in sports is about more than...

Staff Writer - January 30, 2021

Felesia Stukes, Johnson C. Smith University When professional sports teams use big data and analytics, their objective is to improve player performance and win more...

Education

For these students, using data in sports is about more than...

Staff Writer - January 20, 2021

Felesia Stukes, Johnson C. Smith University When professional sports teams use big data and analytics, their objective is to improve player performance and win more...

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Many physicians who aren’t U.S. citizens come to the U.S. to do medical residency programs. SDI Productions/E+ via Getty Images

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How new foreign worker visa fees might worsen doctor shortages in...

Staff Writer - October 17, 2025

Patrick Aguilar, Washington University in St. Louis There are almost 1.1 million licensed physicians in the United States. That...

A scene on the Erie Canal painted in 1842, two decades after the canal opened. Bettmann/Getty Images

Erie Canal’s 200th anniversary: How a technological marvel for trade changed...

October 15, 2025

The Stanford linear accelerator creates super short X-ray pulses. Steve Jurvetson/Flickr, CC BY

Our team of physicists inadvertently generated the shortest X-ray pulses ever observed

October 15, 2025

Flux ropes (simulated, right) are structures made up of magnetic field lines wrapping around each other like a rope, that look similar to tornadoes on Earth. NOAA, Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti and Chip Manchester

‘Space tornadoes’ could cause geomagnetic storms – but these phenomena, spun...

October 13, 2025

Prof. Jie Huang stands with the MOF-based breathalyzer his lab developed with support from the NIH. Michael Pierce/Missouri S&T

Our engineering team is making versatile, tiny sensors from the Nobel-winning...

October 11, 2025