Positron emission tomography (PET) scans use positrons — the antimatter equivalent of an electron — to locate cancer in the body.
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By looking down, scientists are looking back in time.
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AI is helping us replace petrochemicals with natural enzymes.
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The history of cartography might have been very different if the Latin version of Muhammad al-Idrisi’s atlas had survived instead of the Arabic one.
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By probing the Universe on atomic scales and smaller, we can reveal the entirety of the Standard Model, and with it, the quantum Universe.
The author of Frankenstein had an obsession with the cemetery and saw love and death as connected.
A high-fat diet might trigger inflammation of the hypothalamus.
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When what we predict and what we measure don’t add up, that’s a sign there’s something new to learn. Could it be a new fundamental force?