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Plants use light to make energy – and a team of scientists is using the same principle to power chemical reactions. fhm/Moment via Getty Images

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Light-powered reactions could make the chemical manufacturing industry more energy-efficient

Staff Writer - June 19, 2025

Arindam Sau, University of Colorado Boulder; Amreen Bains, Colorado State University, and Anna Wolff, Colorado State University Manufactured chemicals...

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Black holes aren’t totally black, and other insights from Stephen Hawking’s...

Staff Writer - March 16, 2018

Christoph Adami, Michigan State University Mathematical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking was best known for his work exploring the relationship between black holes and quantum...

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Dusk in downtown Lumberton, county seat in Robeson County, N.C., the most diverse rural county in America. AP Photo/David Goldman

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6 myths about rural America: How conventional wisdom gets it wrong

Staff Writer - December 9, 2025

Tim Slack, Louisiana State University and Shannon M. Monnat, Syracuse University Roughly 1 in 5 Americans live in rural...

Meditation can make us more aware of the miracle of existence of everything in this world. Anna Sunderland Engels

Meditating on the connectedness of life could help reunite a divided...

December 4, 2025

Mysterious blasts of radio waves from across the universe called fast radio bursts help astronomers catalog matter. ESO/M. Kornmesser, CC BY-SA

Most normal matter in the universe isn’t found in planets, stars...

December 4, 2025

Carbon capture and storage projects capture carbon dioxide emissions from industrial facilities and power plants and pipe them underground to geological formations. Nopphinan/iStock/Getty Images Plus

Google plans to power a new data center with fossil fuels,...

December 2, 2025

Members of the Fraternal Order of Real Bearded Santas meet at Pink’s restaurant at Knott’s Berry Farm before the holiday rush in 2009. Business Wire via AP

What makes a true Santa is inside – and comes with...

November 29, 2025