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Researchers at North Carolina State University have unveiled Rainbow, a first-of-its-kind multi-robot self-driving laboratory ...

The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science is set to close for around seven months for significant renovations.

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From a chromatography lab designed to solve a mystery to puzzle races, these activities get high school students talking—while doing science.