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A new study looks at how microscopic plants have been used as evidence in forensic investigations. Tiny plants such as moss are easy to miss. Many are no larger than an eyelash, and they usually grow ...

New study examines how law enforcement agencies, forensic teams and botanists have used moss to solve murders, track missing people and calculate how long ago someone died.

Through anecdotes of student projects, an educator argues that the pillars of modern learning—critical thinking, creativity, ...

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Edison was sold on the one simple trick of falling into N1, the short, half-conscious sleep stage that marks the transition ...

For decades, Arieh Warshel, USC Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and a 2013 Nobel laureate, has used computer simulations ...

Here are 11 free NPTEL data science and analytics courses from leading IITs cover graph theory, Bayesian modelling, Python, R, databases and big-data stats. These are all free to audit, and enrolment ...

When weird fungal epidemics crop up in far-flung places, scientists work together to unravel how the microscopic murderers ...

A new Swinburne study is addressing a core paradox: if quantum computing is solving problems that cannot be checked by conventional methods, how can we be certain the results are correct? Quantum ...

How the brain gets wired up matters. Consider the neurons involved in the sense of smell. Hook them up wrong, and suddenly ...

A number of major studies have already linked fibre - or a lack thereof - to an increased risk of colorectal cancer. And as ...