Climate science, for all its remarkable progress, still has some very unnerving blank spots. The planet is behaving in ways ...

National Harbor, Md. — Looking at face patterns in photos of more than 11,000 kinds of ants struck entomologist Clint Penick as a fine pandemic-lockdown project for his students. From that socially ...

Sea urchin skeletons may owe some of their strength to a common geometric design. Urchin skeletons display “an incredible diversity of structures at the microscale, varying from fully ordered to ...

Columbia Engineering scientists have developed a machine learning system that can use the pattern produced by nanocrystals to estimate the material’s atomic structure, according to a recent study ...

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