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Through anecdotes of student projects, an educator argues that the pillars of modern learning—critical thinking, creativity, ...

New study examines how law enforcement agencies, forensic teams and botanists have used moss to solve murders, track missing people and calculate how long ago someone died.

Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of algorithms.

When weird fungal epidemics crop up in far-flung places, scientists work together to unravel how the microscopic murderers ...

A number of major studies have already linked fibre - or a lack thereof - to an increased risk of colorectal cancer. And as ...

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A new Swinburne study is addressing a core paradox: if quantum computing is solving problems that cannot be checked by conventional methods, how can we be certain the results are correct? Quantum ...

Centuries-old genetic material can solve historical mysteries, from lost species to what killed Napoleon’s army.

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