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

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