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Bret Stetka
Richard Andersen
A new generation of brain-machine interface can deduce what a person wants
Rowan Jacobsen
Biologists are building an organism that can shrug off any virus on the planet. Impervious human cells may be next
Daisy Yuhas
Research suggests platform designs make us lose track of time spent on them and can heighten conflicts, and then we feel upset with ourselves
Katie Worth
Oil and gas representatives influence the standards for courses and textbooks, from kindergarten to 12th grade.
Simon Makin
Hundreds of thousands of people experience mania without ever getting depressed. Why does psychiatry insist on calling them bipolar?
Matthew Fisher et al.
As political polarization grows, the arguments we have with one another may be shifting our understanding of truth itself
Ann Finkbeiner
Astronomers’ newfound ability to see the same cosmic events in light, particles and gravitational waves – a synthesis called multimessenger astronomy – gives them a fuller picture of some of the universe’s most mysterious phenomena
Sophie Bushwick
New technology delivers power to electronic devices in a test space
Dina Fine Maron
After false starts, researchers are making progress toward treating deafness with gene therapy
Jeffrey P. Townsend
Evolutionary studies indicate that the genetic changes enabling a cancer to develop arise shockingly early within the primary tumor. This discovery points to a promising new approach to therapy
György Buzsáki
Neural activity probes your physical surroundings to select just the information needed to survive and flourish
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