California Institute of Technology Tops English Magazine’s University Rankings
The California Institute of Technology has been ranked the best university in the world by the Times Higher Education magazine of London for the third year in a row.
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100 Glorious Years of the Rose Bowl
A look back at the pageantry in Pasadena as Stanford and Michigan State prepare to meet on the field on New Year’s Day in the 100th Rose Bowl game.
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To Study Aggression, a Fight Club for Flies
Scientists are learning more about the brain activity underlying male aggression.
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Popovich: Division III Coach at Heart
After four N.B.A. titles and three Coach of the Year awards, the Spurs’ Gregg Popovich maintains a bond with a tiny college conference.
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Big Bang to Be Investigated From Balloon in Antarctica
A set of six telescopes known as Spider will circle the continent for the next 20 days, observing a haze of faint microwave radio waves that are thought to be the fading Big Bang remnants.
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Black Holes Inch Ahead to Violent Cosmic Union
Scientists say a pair of supermassive black holes appear to be spiraling toward a galaxy-wrecking collision that could release as much energy as 100 million supernova explosions.
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A Climate Hawk Separates Energy Thought Experiments from Road Maps
A progressive “climate hawk” says simplified road maps for solving the climate challenge are counterproductive.
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Fruit Flies Are Shown to Enter a Fearlike State
A new study indicates that the insects display building blocks of emotion when a shadow passes over their food.
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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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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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