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Rachel Chen, 18, won $100,000 for her innovative quantum mathematics research. (Photo: Society for Science) At just 18,…

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London, United Kingdom – In a wheat field near High Wycombe in the rolling English countryside, Alex Nelms…

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In 1972, an English photographer bought this remote island in the South Atlantic Ocean; today, 5 penguin species…

View larger. | Japan’s Akatsuki orbiter took this stunning ultraviolet image of Venus on December 23, 2016. A…

THE TAKEAWAY A team of scientists discovered a new way to identify where some of Earth’s biggest earthquakes…

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Alone in a dried-up crater lake millions of miles from Earth, NASA’s Curiosity rover has been tirelessly exploring…

The world needs to move from fossil fuels to renewable ones, but the narrative pushed by powerful…

Meet Rachel Chen, the 18-year-old Los Angeles student who expanded a 1997 quantum-math idea to describe entire particle systems with simple diagrams; she won $100,000