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More Evidence for Coming Black Hole Collision

A new report supports the theory that two black holes in a galaxy 3.5 billion light-years away are headed for a cosmic collision of unimaginable scale....

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College Rankings Fail to Measure the Influence of the Institution

The new College Scorecard tells how much graduates of particular colleges earn, but not what impact, if any, the colleges have on graduates’ earnings....

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Hawaii Court Rescinds Permit to Build Thirty Meter Telescope

Construction of the telescope on Mauna Kea, a revered symbol in Hawaiian culture, had been stalled since April, when protesters blocked crews from the site....

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Ninth Planet May Exist Beyond Pluto, Scientists Report

Two professors at the California Institute of Technology laid out an argument for the existence of a planet perhaps 4,500 times the mass of Pluto....

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She Wanted to Do Her Research. He Wanted to Talk ‘Feelings.’

For women in science, part of the job can mean dealing with unwanted sexual attention....

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Smaller Chips May Depend on Vacuum Tube Technology

The vacuum tube, a 100-year-old technology replaced by transistors, could make a comeback as a way to shrink computer chips beyond the limits of silicon....

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Ahmed H. Zewail, Nobel-Prize-Winning Chemist, Dies at 70

Dr. Zewail, a naturalized American citizen, was the first Arab to win a Nobel in any of the sciences, and he championed science in Egypt and the Middle East....

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Can Humans Go From Unintended Global Warming to Climate By Design?

Analysts of geoengineering challenge the inevitability of millenniums of warming....

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Third Gravitational Wave Detection, From Black-Hole Merger 3 Billion Light...

This is the third black-hole smashup that astronomers have detected since they started keeping watch on the cosmos back in September 2015....

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With Innovation, Colleges Fill the Skills Gap

Many employers say college graduates often do not have the skills required for a job. Some colleges are working to solve that problem....

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