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Claims about a brain implant technology that compresses prison sentences into minutes are based on a concept, not actual ...

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The Court’s opinion has disturbing things to say about privacy, but the biggest losers are likely to be judges themselves.

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Claims that an asteroid or comet airburst destroyed the biblical Sodom captured the public’s imagination. Its retraction ...

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The executive order “Restoring Gold Standard Science” seeks to restore a higher standard for scientific research and ...

Defensive pessimism is an example of how optimism and pessimism come in different forms. It also shows us how what matters most is not how full the glass seems, but what we do with it. Behaviour, not ...

For the past five years, researchers at Leipzig University have been working on fundamentally new methods for selectively ...

For that, the researchers built upon the assumption that a citation in a “renewed patent” application would be a credible ...

In order to determine the spectral characteristics of the material (for example, the chemical composition at each point), we ...