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Emerging ‘co-scientist’ systems use teams of chatbots to mimic the deliberations of a research group. Do they really help?

Some studies containing instructions in white text or small font — visible only to machines — will be withdrawn from preprint ...

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An international team of astronomers has discovered a massive cloud of gas and dust located in a little-known region of our ...

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The U.S. could stop adult boosters for both tetanus and diphtheria, which are given together, saving the strapped U.S. healthcare system about $1 billion a year, says Mark Slifka.