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Flying colors: Researcher reveals hidden world through the eyes of butterflies

Staff Writer - July 2, 2019

Adriana Briscoe, University of California, Irvine An award-winning scientist and professor of evolutionary biology, Adriana Briscoe studies the evolution of vision in butterflies and how...

Keith Krach unanimously confirmed by Senate as Under Secretary of State

Government

BREAKING NEWS — United States Senate confirms Keith Krach by unanimous...

Staff Writer - June 20, 2019

Keith Krach has been confirmed by unanimous vote of the US Senate as Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment and several other...

Politics

Seeking truth among ‘alternative facts’

Staff Writer - February 23, 2017

Peter Neal Peregrine, Lawrence University Part of what I do as an archaeologist is judge between competing claims to truth. Indeed, you could say this...

Education

2015, the year that was: science and technology

Staff Writer - December 28, 2015

Maggie Villiger, The Conversation There are a number of definitions of science, as both a process and a body of knowledge. At root, it’s an...

Tech

Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded for work on natural DNA repair

Staff Writer - October 8, 2015

Benjamin Burke, University of Hull The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2015 has been awarded jointly to Sweden’s Tomas Lindahl, USA’s Paul Modrich and Turkish-born...

Health

Our obsession with hereditary cancers didn’t start when….

Staff Writer - August 21, 2015

Our obsession with hereditary cancers didn't start when we discovered the breast cancer gene Devon Stillwell, Johns Hopkins University Angelina Jolie received much public attention for...

Tech

Talking to Mars: new antenna design could aid interplanetary communication

Staff Writer - August 21, 2015

Jean Paul Santos, University of California, Los Angeles; Joshua M Kovitz, University of California, Los Angeles, and Yahya Rahmat-Samii, University of California, Los Angeles When...