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The Emotional Toll of a Career-Ending – or Fatal – Sports Injury

The Emotional Toll of a Career-Ending – or Fatal – Sports...

Losing your teammate or player to a potentially career-ending – or fatal – injury...

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What to Know About Newly Approved Alzheimer's Drug

What to Know About Newly Approved Alzheimer's Drug

It's not a cure, but the drug, given intravenously every 2 weeks, has shown moderate...

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Little-Used Fitness Measure Could Be Key to Exercise Results

Little-Used Fitness Measure Could Be Key to Exercise Results

Crafting exercise programs around a long-ignored measure of fitness could help us...

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Physicists should take time to ponder the strangest ideas

Physicists should take time to ponder the strangest ideas

There are other ways to explain wave-particle duality than Albert Einstein's, but...

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Don’t Miss: The Last of Us - hit video game becomes a TV show

Don’t Miss: The Last of Us - hit video game becomes a TV...

New Scientist's weekly round-up of the best books, films, TV series, games and more...

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Science needs to work with the arts to reach all who could benefit

Science needs to work with the arts to reach all who could...

Science is key to addressing global health challenges, but if its advances to be...

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Awe review: Neglected feeling of awe could help battle climate change

Awe review: Neglected feeling of awe could help battle...

We pay little attention to the feeling of awe, but, as Dacher Keltner's new book...

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Ship taller than Eiffel Tower will build biggest offshore wind farm

Ship taller than Eiffel Tower will build biggest offshore...

Including its 130-metre-long legs, the Voltaire wind turbine installation vessel...

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Low-carb diet reduces seizures for people with drug-resistant epilepsy

Low-carb diet reduces seizures for people with drug-resistant...

A trial of 160 people found that pairing standard epilepsy therapies with a low-carbohydrate...

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Pre-eclampsia and hypertension in pregnancy linked to 19 gene variants

Pre-eclampsia and hypertension in pregnancy linked to 19...

Why blood pressure rises during some pregnancies is unclear. Better understanding...

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Quantum computers can break major encryption method, researchers claim

Quantum computers can break major encryption method, researchers...

It has long been known that one day quantum computers will probably be able to crack...

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Reef fish are more placid around islands infested with invasive rats

Reef fish are more placid around islands infested with...

Around rat-infested tropical islands in the Indian Ocean, jewel damselfish change...

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Amazon deforestation may shrink Himalayan snow and Antarctic ice

Amazon deforestation may shrink Himalayan snow and Antarctic...

Changes in temperature and precipitation due to rapid deforestation in the Amazon...

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We've just discovered a new part of the brain's waste disposal system

We've just discovered a new part of the brain's waste disposal...

A thin layer of tissue called the subarachnoid lymphatic-like membrane, or SLYM,...

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We may now know how childhood adversity leaves its mark on the brain

We may now know how childhood adversity leaves its mark...

Research in mice suggests that a newly identified brain pathway may be the reason...

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The 50-year quest to find the particle that almost broke physics

The 50-year quest to find the particle that almost broke...

When physicists first discovered a form of a radioactivity called beta decay it...