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Frederick Douglass and science’s emancipatory power

Science did not corrupt society; society corrupted science. This was the key takeaway from Dr. Eric Herschthal’s talk “Frederick Douglass On Science:...

Earth's water may have come from the Sun

Scientists have been attempting to decipher the origin of water on Earth for decades. A new study in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets of the...

Converting carbon dioxide emissions into clean fuel

Haotian Wang, a fellow at Harvard University’s Rowland Institute, and his team have recently detailed improvements they made to a system they first outlined...

Graphene as a superconductor? Double layers could be the key

The familiar is often overlooked. A recent paper published in the journal Science Advances describes a newly-discovered property of double layers of graphene...

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