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A five-story replica of a stamp of Superman in 1998 in Cleveland, home of the superhero’s creators, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File

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See you in the funny papers: How superhero comics tell the...

Staff Writer - March 14, 2025

Miriam Eve Mora, University of Michigan Nearly a hundred years ago, a hastily crafted spaceship crash-landed in Smallville, Kansas....

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‘Across the Spider-Verse’ and the Latino legacy of Spider-Man

Staff Writer - June 4, 2023

Regina Marie Mills, Texas A&M University As a Latino literature and media scholar, a lifelong gamer and a Guatemalan-American...

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

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

Staff Writer - October 15, 2025

Christine Keiner, Rochester Institute of Technology If you visit the Erie Canal today, you’ll find a tranquil waterway and...

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

The quantum behavior of superconducting circuits like the small white square above was a major discovery. K. Cicak and R. Simmonds/NIST

Nobel Prize in physics awarded for ultracold electronics research that launched...

October 9, 2025