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The findings come from a major, yearlong “premortem” conducted by the Brookings Institution’s Center for Universal Education.

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Understanding a molecule that plays a key role in nitrogen fixing – a chemical process that enables life on Earth – has long ...

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Foams were once thought to behave like glass, with bubbles frozen in place at the microscopic level. But new simulations ...