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Students will work alongside colleagues at Los Alamos National Laboratory and other universities.

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Physicists have debated which way a submerged sprinkler sucking in water would spin. Careful experiments provide an answer.

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The gold standard of scientific review, peer review by researchers’ colleagues, is in crisis. AI might offer a solution but has problems of its own.

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A retired astronaut with five spacewalks under his belt is helping local teens dream up experiments bound for the ...