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Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific ...

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NASA’s astrobiology ambitions are at risk of collapsing under the White House’s proposed budget. But your voice can make a ...

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A Google DeepMind system improves chip designs and addresses unsolved math problems but has not been rolled out to ...