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Journalism & communication

Why Does Only This Story Make the News? News Values

News values are the criteria that decide which events become news and how they are reported. This article covers Galtung and Ruge’s 1965 study that started the field, the main news

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Library & information science

The Power to Handle Information: Information Literacy (IL)

Information literacy is the ability to recognize what information you need, find it, evaluate it, and use it ethically. This article covers its definition and origins, the core fra

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Physics

When Light Cannot Escape: Total Internal Reflection

Total internal reflection happens when light traveling from a material with a higher refractive index toward a lower one hits the boundary beyond the critical angle and is reflecte

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General knowledge

Safe Driving Guide: Accident Prevention and Essential Checks

Safe driving is an essential virtue for every driver and an important responsibility for protecting one's own safety and that of others. With traffic accidents increasing recently,

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Chemistry

Mirror-Image Twin Molecules: Chirality

Chirality is the property of an object or molecule that cannot be superimposed on its own mirror image. This article covers the basic definition of chirality, how mirror-image mole

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Robotics

The First Robot Arm to Enter the Factory: Unimate

Unimate, installed at a General Motors plant in New Jersey in 1961, is regarded as the world’s first industrial robot. Learn how it grew from George Devol’s patent, how its hydraul