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Using a thermal sensor smaller than a grain of sand, engineers have measured the vibrations, or phonons, within individual molecules.

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Buried deep in the ice in the Antarctic are "eyes" that can see elementary particles called neutrinos, and what they've ...

Noreen Garcia is a sixth-year PhD candidate studying marine chemistry and geochemistry at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. Garcia grew up in South Central Los Angeles, and earned ...