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A summary of the research of Linus Pauling's Team in 1949 which led to his coining the term "Molecular Disease"

What is the best university in the world? One clue lies in the THES's annual ranking of the world's best universities. Here's the 2007 top ten for all subjects.

What is the best university in the world? Each year the Higher (formerly the THES or Times Higher) publishes a list claiming to identify the world's best universities.

The most selective colleges in the United States are located on the east coast. The following article names the top five selective colleges in the Western United States.

College textbook prices have climbed 240% since 1986, says U.S. Bureau of Labor. Here's how Congress, students and professors are trying to slow down the rising costs.

According to U.S. News & World Report, Harvard and Princeton are the best national universities, while Amherst and Williams are the top liberal arts colleges.

What schools have the best graduation speakers this year for the class of 2007? Here's a guide to 2007 commencement speakers at U.S. colleges and universities.

Meeting future energy needs, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and focusing on green energy supply is the goal of a University of Delaware biomass research center.

The impact of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 showed that the solar system is still a very volatile place.

The Feynman physics lectures are the result of an introductory physics course that Nobel prize winning physicist, Richard Feynman, taught at Caltech in the early 1960s.

Linus Pauling was a genius who described the chemical bond, protein structure and the benefits of Vitamin C and became the only person to win two unshared Nobel Prizes.

Michael Green, theoretical physicist, succeeds the likes of Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage and Paul Dirac to become the next Lucasian Professor at Cambridge.

A brief biography of Robert A. Millikan, who won the 1923 Nobel prize in physics for his famous Millikan oil drop experiment.

An engineering education is an investment, and there are many options to pay for engineering school tuition.

Makemake is a Pluto-like object lying in our solar system beyond Neptune's orbit.

Revolutionary acts rip countries apart. For decades Mozambique was a center for civil war and revolution. Two movements, Frelimo and Renamo, fought for freedom.

Stacey O'Brien's memoir about the nineteen years she shared her life and her home with an unreleasable barn owl is touching, funny, and fascinating.

Astronomers have calculated that there is a small chance that two neighbouring planets might bump into Earth, but not for a billion years.

The prefrontal cortex, known as the "thinking brain" plays a big role in decision making skills but the limbic system may be responsible for high risk taking in teens.

Students' interest in learning science is sometimes based on inquiry into facts that others do not know or learning facts they have no prior knowledge or experiences.

Employed as an analyzer of patents, Carlson had to make flawless copies of inventors' drawings. He would invent the photocopier because he wanted effortless copying.

Through trials and heartache, Mrs. Mondlane dared to stand up for the rights of her family. Since moving to Mozambique over 30 years ago, she is standing for a nation.

Brief biography of chemist Linus Pauling, so far the only Nobel laureate of two unshared Nobel Prizes, Chemistry and Peace, and known for The Nature of the Chemical Bond.

Poorly constructed buildings, without reinforcement, toppled from Los Angeles to Laguna Beach, resulting in legislation to make structures more earthquake-resistant.

In this article learn about which private universities offer the best financial aid packages.