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In a first for Dartmouth College and perhaps a first for any major research university, more than half of seniors receiving engineering BA degrees...
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Did quadratic equations exist when the dinosaurs were around, or did they only come into being with the arrival of theorem-creating humanity? That...
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Drawing animals is about as old as culture gets, if you count those beasts doodled on prehistoric cave walls. And massive online college courses...
When a computer beat one of the world’s best players at the ancient Asian board game known as Go last month, a lot of people around the world were...
The world may not have the flying cars people expected when The Jetsons was our vision of the future, but we’re awfully close to a technology that...
Even as the state’s fishing fleet, complete with just eight commercial boats, struggles to find fewer fish in the sea and new costs related to a...