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He pushed the drill carefully through the last bit of bone. He inserted the thing using the tweezers. He sutured the hole, ...

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Researchers at the University of Utah now report a way to make that trade-off a little bit easier. By giving a bionic hand a limited form of artificial intelligence, they have created a prosthesis ...

As you’ll soon see, Brainiac goes through a number of permutations over his life span. So it’s all the more impressive that the basics of the character were present in his first appearance, “The Super ...

The first pulsar was discovered in 1967 by Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Finding these mysterious signals forever changed astronomy.

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Honey badgers are not actually named for their love of honey, in fact, they raid bee hives to loot the delicious, protein-rich larva inside, which seems like an overly complicated way to get protein.

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