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The University of Minnesota-connected citizen science platform logs its one billionth contribution to scientific knowledge.

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Machine learning models narrow down solutions in synthesis, compounding, product design, and more.

To improve quantum computers, Zhenjie Yan wants to understand how to efficiently shuttle quantum information.

Some of the hardest questions in cosmology begin where the usual math gives up. Push Einstein’s theory far enough back toward the Big Bang, and the equations run into a singularity, a point where ...

This Pew Research Center report looks at the experiences of working parents in the United States, including how they navigate the demands of work and family life, how they divide responsibilities at ...

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Every great creative movement—whether in art, science, technology, or organizational life—follows a pattern so consistent it might as well be encoded in the laws of nature. Breakthroughs rarely emerge ...