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Published January 13, 2022In 2020, despite the COVID pandemic, scientists authored 6 million peer-reviewed publications, a 10 percent increase
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Published January 10, 2022David Silver thinks games are the key to creativity. After competing in national Scrabble competitions as a kid, he went on
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Published January 06, 2022Dylann Roof allegedly had a drug problem. He drifted between homes and schools growing up and had quit a landscaping job by
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Published December 29, 2021How did COVID-19 start? What do existing weapons tell us about future autonomous warfare? Why are people so resistant to
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Published December 29, 2021How did COVID-19 start? What do existing weapons tell us about future autonomous warfare? Why are people so resistant to
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Published December 27, 2021Footage from the Tsar Bomba documentary footage released in August 2020, showing photo frames of the detonation examined
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Published December 23, 2021Some 53 percent of US adults get news from social media. They consume information in a zone in which inaccuracies spread
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Published December 21, 2021Anthony Fauci, the White House’s chief medical advisor, set a lot of minds at ease recently when he said he saw no need
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Published December 17, 2021In South Africa and the United Kingdom, where the new omicron variant is contributing to record numbers of COVID-19
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Published December 01, 2021Talk about whiplash. After the first Thanksgiving Americans had spent together since the pandemic began, many began
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Published November 26, 2021The FBI recently revealed an attempted drone attack on the American electric grid, via an electrical substation in
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Technological improvements have tended to follow a predictable pattern of initial excitement, subsequent disappointment, and eventual
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Published November 03, 2021The White House correspondent slot is a coveted perch in Washington, DC media real estate. After landing a nice job and a
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Published November 03, 2021Computer engineer Josiah Hester is outside a Latin American street food restaurant in Evanston, Illinois, with four of his
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Published October 27, 2021Online disinformation offers a way to influence society without relying on physical methods for results. Why tamper with