Seraj Zerhouni, a student at LaSalle II Elementary School, correctly spelled "logothete" to become the Chicago Public Schools Spelling Bee Champion Thursday. He will advance to the Scripps National ...

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At temperatures approaching absolute zero, most magnetic materials settle into tidy patterns. Their tiny magnetic moments, or ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois have discovered a surprising mathematical connection between two areas of condensed-matter physics that were long considered separate. The electronic and ...

In recent years, local small-boat fishers who pursue prized bottomfish such as ehu, onaga and the red opakapaka that’s popular on table spreads across Hawaiʻi each New Year’s have seen a troubling ...

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