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Alexander Soifer is a professor of mathematics and European cinema at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He has ...

Lisa Pavia-Higel is an assistant teaching professor of English and technical communication at the Missouri University of ...

Deni Ellis Béchard is Scientific American’s senior tech reporter. He is author of 10 books and has received a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, a Midwest Book Award, and a Nautilus Book Award for ...

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National Science Foundation staff were told to freeze outgoing funding days after NSF leadership introduced a new policy that ...

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