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The two teens huddled around their science teacher, eyes wide as he held a tiny solar panel beneath a fluorescent lamp. As light glinted off the device, a miniature, solar-powered fan whirred to life.

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NASA's Curiosity rover snapped a series of peculiar polygons that look suspiciously like giant fossilized reptile scales.

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A long-standing mystery in materials science has finally been resolved, revealing how microscopic particles fundamentally ...

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Despite billions spent and countless programs launched, rates of suicide and treatment-resistant PTSD remain stubbornly high ...