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Live Science spoke with Nobel prize-winning physicist David Gross, who recently received the $3 million Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, about the quest to unite all the forces and ...

A new and potentially safer opioid has been tested in lab rats, and the results suggest it relieves pain with a lower risk of ...

Stephen Hawking's theory of black hole evaporation clashes with the laws of quantum mechanics. A new paper finds a way around ...

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A researcher explains what we know — and what we don't — about the link between loneliness and memory problems.

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