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German scientists built a high-resolution microscope out of Lego bricks

Enlarge / Photograph and schematic representation of the LEGO microscope built by scientists at Göttingen University. (credit: Bart E. Vos et al., 2021) German born scientists have built a high resolution microscope out of Lego parts and components salvaged from a mobile phone, according to a recent paper published in The Biophysicist. They found that […]

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Arkansas House passes unconstitutional bill putting creationism in schools

Enlarge / The Arkansas state capitol. (credit: Daniel Schwen) Last week, the Arkansas state House of Representatives passed a bill that would amend state education law to allow teachers in public schools to teach creationism as “a theory of how the earth came to exist.” As it stands, the act promotes blatantly unconstitutional behavior as […]

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