Evidence of a variable but progressively drying climate coincides with a major shift in stone-tool-making abilities…
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Nobel Prize in Economics 2018
The 2018 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is being awarded…
Smallest integrated Kerr frequency comb generator
Optical frequency combs can enable ultrafast processes in physics, biology, and chemistry, as well as improve…
Neoadjuvant combination checkpoint blockade trial yields high response rates for patients with high-risk stage three melanoma
Combination checkpoint blockade before surgery (neoadjuvant therapy) produced a high response rate among patients with high-risk…
Mystery of Saturn’s moon Titan’s atmospheric haze
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When yesterday’s agriculture feeds today’s water pollution
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Copper ions flow like liquid through crystalline structures
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Getting a grip on the slow but unique evolution of sharks
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There’s a better way to decipher DNA’s epigenetic code to identify disease
A new method for sequencing the chemical groups attached to the surface of DNA is paving…