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Antineutrinos made alongside the production of weapons-grade plutonium could be spotted with existing technology.

The scene, from a Netflix documentary series released in 2020, recreates a highly cited 2007 study 1, which found that babies ...

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The technology can whip up spurious findings and pollute survey responses, but it could also make research more rigorous.

The tech giant says it will make ‘topological’ quantum computers that can be scaled up faster than competing technologies.

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They had ‘highly sensitized’ immune systems that usually reject donated organs, leaving them with few options for survival.