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06.02.2016
Unlike what most geneticists previously thought, the ancestor of modern-day dogs may not be a hundred percent Asian. Man’s best friend could in fact be a cross between two genetic “relatives,” one...
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05.31.2016
Seventy-one years after he disappeared in Budapest, the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved tens of thousands of Jews from deportation by giving them Swedish papers, was officially declared...
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05.30.2016
Scientists are stretching the limits of new technology to develop innovative techniques to improve diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, as well as provide care for the increasing number of sufferers.
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05.26.2016
The research vessel Tara sets off to the Pacific on a two-year mission to study coral reefs and assess the unprecedented threats from climate change on this fragile ecosystem, home to 30% of our...
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05.24.2016
Winner of the startup contest at the 2016 Innorobo international forum in Paris, Axilum Robotics’ TMS-Robot is a huge step forward in magnetic brain-stimulation procedures, pointing to the promising...
05.19.2016
More than 50 years after Nelson Mandela’s trial, the 230 hours of hearings have been digitized and returned to South Africa—a challenge made possible by a device called the “Archeophone.”