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Albert Einstein's brilliance remains unmatched, yet his exact IQ remains a mystery. Despite countless speculations estimating ...

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Brown University chemists have provided direct evidence that upends the textbook explanation of how triple chemical bonds ...

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In August of 1939, Albert Einstein sent a letter to U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, advising him that the process of nuclear fission could potentially be used to create a powerful atomic ...

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Nobel-prize-winning chemist Omar Yaghi has left the United States for a full-time position at Tsinghua University in Beijing, ...

In 1955, one year after the United States tested a hydrogen bomb 1,000 times more powerful than the bomb used on Hiroshima, an international group of scientists warned that “H-bombs might quite ...

What does it take for a hospital team to make a difference on a national scale? At Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein in São Paulo, a group of neuroscience researchers is striving to improve stroke ...