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Nobel Laureate William Lipscomb Dies at 91

BOSTON -- William Nunn Lipscomb Jr., a Harvard University professor who won the Nobel chemistry prize in 1976 for his research on the structure of molecules and on chemical bonding and mentored several other future Nobel laureates, has died. He was 91. Lipscomb, himself a protégé of two-time Nobel laureate Linus Pauling,...

The Ultimate Roommate Calculator: How a Math Geek Splits the Rent

Living with roommates raises plenty of questions. Who left the dishes in the sink? Where's your share of the cable bill? What happened to my leftover pizza? Thankfully, a graduate student at Harvard University has used math to help roommates find an easy answer to the most difficult of domestic questions. Jonathan...

Humans May Have Left Africa Earlier Than Thought

WASHINGTON -- Modern humans may have left Africa thousands of years earlier than previously thought, turning right and heading across the Red Sea into Arabia rather than following the Nile to a northern exit, an international team of researchers says. Stone tools discovered in the United Arab Emirates indicate the...

'Pants' Up, 'Trousers' Down on Google's Ngram Viewer

(Dec. 17) -- Never one to be caught resting on its laurels, Google has released a massive, searchable database that will give linguists and historians a new tool for quantitatively understanding how language and culture have changed over time. It also makes for a good time-waster on languishing Fridays before the...

The Army's Weird Science: From Bugbots to Paintballs

ORLANDO, Fla. (Dec. 4) -- What sort of science is needed to support a military that's been at war for almost a decade? Some clues to the military's vision of science could be seen this week at the Army's 27th science conference featuring research into such novelties as transparent armor, limb regeneration and virtual...

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Harvard University is an American private Ivy League research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature.

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