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The study, which appears in the journal Physical Review Letters, also included researchers from the University of Barcelona, City College of New York, and the University of Florida. Forest fires spread because an initial flame or spark will heat a ...

To the Editor: Class size (, by Sara Mosle, Sunday Review, May 5) remains a top issue for parents and teachers alike, because they know that a classroom of students is not a room full of widgets. There is a delicate dynamic, and the more students ...

I'm not talking about my email, which is unsalvageable at this point. I'm referring to the old-fashioned physical receptacle for receiving letters — remember those? After a successful pilot program in Austin, a company called Outbox, which ...

Review: COVER STORY: Forgotten hero of American letters: Acclaimed as one of the great postwar American writers, James Salter has, at 87, spent his working life in the shadow of his peers, with his frank, finely worked stories about marriage, sex ...

If you were wondering what the best-reviewed iOS and 'droid games on the web last month were, here are the iPhone Quality Index, iPad Quality Index, and Android Quality Index round-ups for April to fill you in.The iPhone, iPad, and Android Quality ...

Senior Editor Researcher Na Young Kim at the optical bench. (Image: Stanford University) Palo Alto, CA--An international research team led by Stanford University's Yoshihisa Yamamoto has demonstrated an electrically driven polariton laser that could ...

Today, the most comprehensive analysis of peer-reviewed climate research to date was published in the journal Environmental Research Letters. Our analysis found that among papers expressing a position on human-caused global warming, over 97% ...

The New South Wales Education Department says Sydney's Haberfield Public School is reviewing its communications systems in the wake of parents' complaints about the school's handling of an attack on four young girls on Friday. Police are still ...

Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo's new album explores and reimagines the sound of the past with an ear toward the future. By Randall Roberts, Pop Music Critic For a sense of the random oddities that dot Daft Punk's strange, funky, ...