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An international team of scientists led by a Rutgers University-New Brunswick astrophysicist has discovered a potentially ...

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I recently interviewed Daniel Toker, a 33-year-old neurologist at UCLA who's exploring innovative ways to cure coma. Toker ...

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For almost 60 years, measuring cholesterol levels in the blood has been the best way to identify individuals at high risk of ...

University of Oregon researchers have uncovered a molecule produced by yeast living on human skin that showed potent ...

Artificial intelligence-based writing assistants are popping up everywhere – from phones to email apps to social media ...

(via Veritasium) How a single phone call from a student helped uncover a flaw that nearly toppled Citicorp.

The Andromeda Paradox, originally from Roger Penrose, is a brain-melting thought experiment that brings up the question of ...

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