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On New Year's Day 1995, a monstrous 80-foot wave in the North Sea slammed into the Draupner oil platform. The wall of water ...

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As schools increasingly move to ban smartphones in classrooms, new research from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) ...

Small grains researcher Juan David Arbelaez-Velez knows the secret to making perfect rice—and it's not about how you cook it.