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Does the Self Exist Outside the Brain?
Memories are stored in the body, not just the brain. Does that mean our "self" is too? Alcor company uses a technique known as cryopreservation to …
New Heavy Metal Molecule Could Reveal What Goes on Inside Nuclear Waste
Since it was first synthesized in a post-WW2 American lab in 1949, berkelium has been a rebel of the periodic table, defying quantum mechanics and …