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Trump to overhaul the world’s largest museum, education and research complex to ‘restore truth and sanity to American history ...

President Donald Trump has issued an executive order on the Smithsonian Institution that targets funding to programs that ...

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The dishwasher, chocolate-chip cookies, and the first version of the Monopoly board game were all created by women.

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In 1949, Brown University physicist George F Carrier posed "the spaghetti problem" in The American Mathematical Monthly, which he deemed to be "of considerable popular and academic interest".

Electricity can be generated from the energy of Earth rotating through its own magnetic field — according to a provocative claim put forward by physicists ... meeting of the American Physical ...

Inside Microsoft’s quest for a topological quantum computer In front of a packed room at a meeting of the American Physical Society (APS), Chetan Nayak, a theoretical physicist leading Microsoft ...

It was Christmas of 1988 when Jainendra K. Jain found himself musing over an idea that would reshape the landscape of theoretical physics. Holed up in the quiet solitude of his study, the young Indian ...

After more than a decade in the United States, nuclear physicist Liu Chang, whose research has been crucial in the journey to achieve fusion energy, has left Princeton University for a position at ...