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Who Should Pay for "Moon Shots"?
The federal government must step up funding of science and technology R&D
Why Doctors Are Drowning in Medical School Debt
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Why the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11 Is So Special to Me
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The "Woodstock of Physics" Is Finally Living Up to Its Promise
A landmark meeting in 1987 promised that high-temperature superconductors would change the world. No one realized how long it would take
Celebrating the Engineers behind the First Moon Landing
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The Simplest and Most Successful Experiment Onboard Apollo 11
How the Lunar Laser Retroreflector, still operating 50 years later, ended up going to the moon
The Geopolitics of Artificial Intelligence
As the U.S. and China vie for global influence, AI will be central to the balance of power
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