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China’s newest hypersonic missile, the DF-27, could sideline US aircraft carrier groups in the Pacific, while missiles…
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Pain has long been subjectively measured, leading to frustrations for patients and doctors alike. Identifying neural biomarkers…
Software you may already use every day can track your productivity for your employer.
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Metaphorical black boxes shield the inner workings of AIs, which protect software developers’ intellectual property. They…
Reintroducing wolves can restore important ecological processes, but it can have unintended effects when smaller predators…
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While mRNA vaccines are designed to last longer in the body than mRNA molecules typically would, they are also tested to…
Environmental DNA provides a wealth of information for conservationists, archaeologists and forensic scientists. But the…
In many animals, including humans, adverse events in youth have lasting negative health effects over the life span. But…
Studying the brief and tiny quantum effects that drive living systems could one day lead to new approaches to treatments…
Despite the association of ‘Luddite’ with a naïve rejection of technology, the term and its origins are far richer…
‘Star Trek: Picard’ is set 400 years in the future, but, like most science fiction, it deals with issues in the here…
Genetics expert Jean Bennett explains how gene therapy is being used to treat certain forms of inherited blindness.
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