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This year, the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) officially recognized a fifth form of diabetes, after decades of ...

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Medicinal cannabis is increasingly used to treat a variety of conditions, but a comprehensive new review suggests that there ...

A tiny robot so small it can barely be seen can still "sense, think, and act" autonomously, according to the engineers who ...

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By firing tiny projectiles of iron-carbon alloy from a high-speed cannon, scientists have finally demonstrated that a weird ...

Is it possible to spot personality dysfunction from someone's everyday word use? My colleagues and I have conducted research ...