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Despite the challenges facing higher education institutions across the country, SUNY Cortland President Erik J. Bitterbaum ...

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Elon Musk has claimed that medical degrees will soon be pointless as AI-powered robots outperform human surgeons. While robotic surgery is advancing rapidly, experts warn that medicine cannot function ...

For the first time researchers demonstrate in an animal how heavy alcohol use leads to long-term behavioral issues by damaging brain circuits critical for decision-making. For the first time ...

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The schematic illustrates biological synaptic transmission (action potential–presynaptic stimulation–channel opening–neurotransmitter release–postsynaptic current) and its electronic emulation: a ...