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The poet Blake wrote that you can see a world in a grain of sand. But even better, you can see a universe in an atom!

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Picture this: you wake up tomorrow morning to find your smartphone dead, your laptop frozen, and your electric car refusing to start. Not because of a power outage or a bug in the grid, but because ...

But most of the gold on Earth isn’t in our hands; it’s deep underground. During the planet’s formation, heavy elements like ...

Meet LSU's alumna who teaches science without saying a word. The biochemist grad found her voice making online teaching ...

We need thoughtful commentary on tech’s implications for learning. John McWhorter’s shrug of an Atlantic essay was anything but.