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Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground ...

UI students and alumni share their journeys in writing and publishing. They reflect on challenges, breakthroughs and lessons they learned.

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A dead star in our galactic neighborhood has produced a shimmering, ringed structure that looks uncannily like a cosmic ...

Physicists have long relied on the idea that electrons behave like tiny particles zipping through materials, even though ...

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Clients would say they look up in the sky and see a plane and it doesn’t look like it should be there,” he says. “It should ...