Ahead of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, we asked scientists, scholars, researchers, and doctors to tell us about the discoveries and developments that define this moment ...

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The history of science and technology is marked by major breakthroughs—the theory of evolution, the splitting of the atom, the development of antibiotics—and a research team including faculty at ...

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