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Muscle mass increased or remained stable relative to body weight in middle-aged mice and humans on GLP-1 drugs.

Turing Award winners Gilles Brassard and Charles Bennett pioneered ideas that are now foundational to quantum computers and ...

But powerful magnets are usually large and energy hungry. Chukun Gao at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and her colleagues sought to build a small ultra-strong magnet that would ...

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