The masterpieces of Henri Matisse, Vincent Van Gogh, Georges Seurat and many of their contemporaries are currently undergoing catastrophic changes, including paint discoloration and...
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Hydrogen: Fueling the Future
As our dependence on foreign oil increases and concerns about global climate change rise, the need to develop sustainable energy technologies is becoming increasingly...
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Hunting the Elusive Higgs Boson and the Origin of Mass
For over 40 years, physicists have been trying to track down a hypothetical particle called the Higgs boson. This particle could explain how known...
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Life Redefined: Microbes Built with Arsenic
UPDATE - In the time following this lecture, aspects of the research featured here have been disproven or come into question. See this article...
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Engineering Human Touch
We humans interact with our physical environment through our senses of touch, sight, smell, taste, and hearing. One of the great challenges in developing...
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Deep Secrets of the Neutrino: Physics Underground
Among the many beautiful, unexpected and sometimes revolutionary discoveries to emerge from subatomic physics, probably none is more bizarre than an elementary particle known...
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Neutrinos Get Under Your Skin
The enigmatic neutrinos are among the most abundant of the tiny particles that make up our universe. They are a billion times more abundant...
