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UC Berkeley is fond of calling itself the best university in the world. And even though Caltech ranks #1 - again - on this year's World University Rankings released by Times Higher Education, UC Berkeley can still claim to be the best.

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If it seems strange to find the inventor of Bitcoin living in the San Gabriel Valley, it's actually not all that surprising given the area is home to one of the most prominent research universities in the United States, The California Institute of Technology ; NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ; and the original Internet incubator, Idealab .

Princeton University was ranked sixth in the latest edition of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, which was released Wednesday.

In August 1984 two physicists arrived at a formula that transformed our understanding of string theory, an achievement now recognised by a major award.

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Washington, March 2: As we rejoice the news of presence of water on Mars, researchers have now used a new technique to detect water in the atmosphere of an extra-solar planet of Jupiter-like mass orbiting a nearby star.

Depression is a serious illness with varying degrees. When it's mild, it makes some areas of a person's life challenging, according to Deborah Serani, PsyD, a clinical psychologist who specializes in treating mood disorders.

Imagine if somehow we could rig up a bubble detector: something to tell investors when stock prices had reached unsustainable levels.

Image Caption: This landscape scene photographed by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows rows of rocks in the foreground and Mount Sharp on the horizon.

You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake - but these are. Film-maker Vyacheslav Ivanov used a high-speed camera to record these individual snowflakes blooming into being like chilly flowers.

The huge telescope will be built on the summit the Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano in Hawaii.

For decades Pluto was the undisputed heavyweight champion in the far reaches of the outer solar system.

Iron oxide nanoparticles have become a popular platform for the fabrication of PET/MRI probes owing to their advantages of high MRI detection sensitivity, biocompatibility, and biodegradability."

A diamond-tipped slicer is used to prepare a piece of a mouse's brain, top, for examination at the Allen Institute for Brain Science.

Penn State scientists were on a team of researchers that has detected water in the atmosphere of a large planet outside the Earth's solar system, the university announced this week.

Although liquid water covers a majority of Earth's surface, scientists are still searching for planets outside of our solar system that contain water.

The backbone of the Internet is comprised in large part by lasers and optical fiber, as optical communication can transmit prodigious amounts of data rapidly and efficiently.

An artist's rendition shows the planned Thirty Meter Telescope, which will be the world's largest when it's finished in 2018 at the summit of Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii.