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During the talk, the planetarium director will cover the facility's opening in 1962 on the college's campus in northeast ...

These days, we would call them proprietary blends. But in the late 1500s and early 1600s, individual alchemists called the ...

Welcome to the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware, where the pursuit of scientific discovery and innovation meets cutting-edge research and academic excellence. Our ...

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Inside the American Museum of Natural History's glass cube, the Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth and ...

Astronomers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and UCLA will develop a next-generation instrument for detecting and ...