The goodwill and generosity of our public school families and sites is sometimes nothing short of remarkable. For example, consider the Ruby Bridges Elementary School science camp. Every year, the ...

According to the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Maiman’s apparatus produced more coherent light ...

In the summer of 1960, physicist Theodore H. Maiman conducted a laboratory experiment at Hughes Research Laboratories that ...

Gem hunters have always been natural geologists, seeking the mother lode long before researchers explained how gems and minerals form. Now, scientists want to officially link precious gems to their ...

Traces of ancient life were locked inside a 2.5 billion-year-old ruby from Greenland, according to a new study. The planet's oldest rubies, sparkling red gemstones made up of a transparent red mineral ...

Australian researchers have observed two specimens of a rare sea dragon that's never before been seen alive. Sea dragons aren't very common, found in the waters off the coast of southern Australia.

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