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Bredt's rule was first reported in textbooks in 1924: double bonds cannot exist at certain positions on organic molecules if the molecule's geometry deviates too far from what we learn in textbooks. UCLA chemists say it’s not true. Their…

"Beam me up, Scotty." Despite the fame of this line, the actors in the original Star Trek series never uttered those words in that order. We've seen teleportation of one sort or another throughout TV and movies. Mike Teavee in Willy…

The Biden administration wants a short-term extension to a science and technology agreement with China; however, U.S. lawmakers say Beijing would exploit it for a security and military advantage. The Science and Technology Agreement, signed…

More than 8 billion people are alive on Earth today. The more our population increases, the more strain we put on our resources. Scientists are looking at insect protein as an integral part of feeding our future world. In fact, the insect…

I’m inconsistent at times when watering my plants. Now, however, I think I’ll reform. Researchers in Israel report that stressed tomato and tobacco plants, whether from dehydration or having their stems severed, emit sounds comparable in…

Streaming and studying organic tissue are miles apart, but a new method of study brings them closer together than you might think possible. A groundbreaking technique developed by researchers affiliated with the USC Michelson Center for…

According to photonics researchers, the amount of time taken up by an optical signal limits the amount of data that can be carried. Temporally shorter signals allow more data to be squeezed into a given time duration, in a method called…

TIES funder and lead of the STEM Learning Ecosystem Community of Practice, plans to hold two Town Hall discussions for members of its 94 STEM Ecosystems and others to discuss the nation's STEM needs. Featuring Erik Nikolaus Martin,…

Aside from all of the other important background noise that makes our cellphones run, there's something called the fast Fourier transform running on it, too. The FFT, as it is known, is a signal-processing algorithm that you use more…

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