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In 1963, Maria Goeppert Mayer won the Nobel Prize in physics for describing the layered, shell-like structures of atomic nuclei. No woman has won since.
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If you happened to be passing through central Idaho in what's now the Snake River plain some 15,000 years ago, you might have spotted entire fields [...]
Fiber optic cables are the gold standard of a good internet connection, but laying them can be expensive, and in some parts of the world, a physically [...]