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This black hole was spotted in data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission because it ... Read More

Feds drop charges against MIT professor over Chinese ties

Not all the Justice Department’s targets are Asian, however. Harvard Professor Charles Lieber was charged a year ago with lying about his ties to China's Thousand Talents Plan, designed to lure people ... Read More

The American Consumer Wants Goods Made in China

Regarding Rep. Jim Banks’s letter “Will China Dominate the U.S. Auto Market?” (March 22): Starting in the 1970s, Japanese auto makers offered well-made, lower-cost autos that Americans embraced. Read More

China’s universities just grabbed 6 of the top 10 spots in one worldwide science ranking – without changing a thing

A radical shift in the data underlying rankings is about to upend the rankings world – largely in favor of China’s position. For instance, in early 2024, the Leiden University Center for Science and ... Read More

BC welcomes inaugural Fitzgerald Professor in data science

Fitzgerald Professor in data science. Mohler's areas of expertise include forecasting, statistics, machine learning, and applications to criminal justice and infectious diseases. He builds algorithms ... Read More

Political science professor weighs in on status of US Senate Race

The race for Maryland's U.S. Senate seat is heating up. One day after a Washington Post poll was released, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Angela Alsobrooks' campaign released a new ad focusing ... Read More

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Juniors and Seniors with a declared College of Science or Mackay School of Earth Sciences and Engineering major In good academic standing (University of Nevada, Reno cumulative GPA 2.0 or higher) To ... Read More

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Thanks to a quirk of quantum physics, four known particles made up of two different quarks ... using newly analyzed data to predict and help avoid whales' harmful, even fatal, exposure ... Read More

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Jan. 30, 2024 — Researchers have developed artificial muscles that are lighter, safer and more robust than their predecessors. The newly developed actuators have a novel type of shell structure ... Read More

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If this sounds worrying, Pasquale Panuzzo, an astronomer at the Paris Observatory, assures us 'there is no reason to be scared'. Hailing from forests nestled within mountain ranges across China ... Read More

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Quantum computers, systems that process and store information leveraging quantum mechanical phenomena, could eventually outperform classical computers on numerous tasks. Among other things, these ... Read More