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Why America is losing its 50-year 'war on cancer,' according to scientist Nafis Hasan"This line of attack in the War on Cancer has had few meaningful outcomes for cancer patients."
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'I encountered the terror of never finding anything': The hollowness of AI art proves machines can never emulate genuine human intelligenceLooking at AI art shows that machines may never truly understand the human mind, as there are states of mind that can never be automated.
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'A frankly embarrassing result': We still know hardly anything about 95% of the universe"As yet, nobody has managed to understand what gives rise to this strange phenomenon, and explaining dark energy remains one of the most formidable challenges of modern science."
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'Rising temperatures melted corpses out of the Antarctic permafrost': The rise of one of Earth's most iconic trees in an uncertain worldAs the Atlantic grew wider, the ancestral population of all of today's oaks may have been straddling the continents of the Northern Hemisphere. If so, the ancestor of the oaks we know today was a widespread population that was cleaved in half as North America inched westward.
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'Medicine needed an alternative': How the 'phage whisperer' aims to replace antibiotics with viruses"Both understood phages as medicinal agents, which the rest of the medical field viewed as nonsensical."
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'It explains why our ability to focus has gone to hell': Screens are assaulting our Stone Age brains with more information than we can handleModern technology has fundamentally changed how our ancient minds work.
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'A challenge and an opportunity for evolution': The extreme, hidden life thriving in Earth's most acidic and alkaline lakes"The most acidic natural inland waters are the lakes that lie in the craters of volcanoes, like Kawah Ijen in Indonesia. These lakes are so rich in sulfuric acid that they may have a pH as low as 0.1. To put this in context, fresh battery acid has a pH of about 0.7. "
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'It might pave the way for novel forms of artistic expression': Generative AI isn't a threat to artists — it's an opportunity to redefine art itselfRather than fearing the rise of generative AI, new technologies may allow creatives to define and express themselves in completely new ways.
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'The prescription is nature': How satellites can show us the healing effects of nature"The incidence of diagnosis and treatment of mental health disorders is less the greener the environment people live in."
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