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The “Raygun” Olympics fiasco points to how hip-hop scholarship is at risk of being colonized and undermined in academia ...

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Scientists have long suspected that a see-through substance known as dark matter suffuses the cosmos, keeping the fabric of our universe from tearing. But what exactly dark matter is made of remains a ...

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The Federal Trade Commission is studying how companies use consumer data to charge different prices for the same product ...

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The piezoelectric effect has been known since the 1880s. It is essentially the ability of a material to generate an electric ...