In 1894, a Dutch scientist, Eugène Dubois, was digging on the serene banks of the Solo River in Java, Indonesia. In his search for evidence about human origins, he found a few fossil remains. Dubois ...

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Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped. System-wide, it fell 6% last year after ...

Jan is ready for a new challenge. She's recently moved to Colorado and wants to take advantage of the new terrain and start mountain running. Before the move, she'd been working on her fitness for ...

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