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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)—a vast family of chemicals used largely for their nonstick, water-repellent and ...

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A new study of 4,200 adolescents revealed that cyberbullying rarely occurs in isolation; it almost always functions as an ...

A novel nanovesicle-based platform developed at Institute of Science Tokyo can measure hydrostatic pressure by converting ...

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Scientists have created a new family of materials whose behavior can be tuned by changing their metallic "recipe"—opening new ...

Earlier this week, OpenAI published a trove of hundreds of mathematical results it claimed could "push the frontier of human ...

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