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Strange Is The Light
I want that table, I'll say that right out of the gate.You won't see the table on the cover, there is a gaming die and four cars even though only one of them ever drives to the place where all of the ...
Earth Sciences
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Canada's Long Point Bird Observatory Has 60% Fewer Insects
In the last 50 years, Canada's Long Point Bird Observatory has seen a decline of insects by over 60 percent and it took a U.S. university to sound the alarm.The impact, the authors of a new paper beli...
Life Sciences
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Sugar Shields Versus A Hostile Microenvironment
You might think of cancer as a mass of rogue cells that grow uncontrollably. But cancer is more organized and strategic than that. Rather, cancer is a tightly controlled cellular neighborhood that can...
Medicine
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Melatonin Is Safe Unless You Use Too Much
Melatonin – a go-to sleep aid for kids and adults alike in many households in America – continues to create media buzz, with conflicting messages that leave people uncertain about its safety.Some head...
Physical Sciences
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Could Electrochemistry Help De-Acidify the Oceans?
The ocean has quietly protected us from the full force of climate change. Since the industrial revolution, it has absorbed a vast amount of the carbon dioxide released by human activity. That has help...
Social Sciences
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A Visit to the Network School in Forest City
Last week I traveled to Singapore to give an invited talk at the AI4X conference, an exciting new venue gathering computer scientists, physicists and engineers to discuss how AI will accelerate scient...