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A six-year analysis of marine microbes in coastal California waters has overturned long-held assumptions about how the ...

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“Simple teasing, offhand comments, and isolated incidents” aren’t proof enough because they do not “amount to discriminatory changes in the terms and conditions of employment.” 4 Take, for example, ...

1 Department of Neurology, The First Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China 2 Department of Neurosurgery, The Second Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China ...

This research was supported by the Intramural Research Program of the NIH. The contributions of the NIH author(s) were made as part of their official duties as NIH federal employees, are in compliance ...

Engineers use feedback loops — typically negative feedback is more useful, but positive feedback is needed for oscillators. Negative feedback in an amplifier circuit, which has a negative loop gain, ...

Earlier this month, scientists announced that humanity has kicked off the first major “tipping point” — in which an Earth system dramatically transforms, often permanently — as warm-water corals die ...

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Permafrost, ground frozen for at least two years underlying the cold Arctic and alpine regions of the Northern Hemisphere, covers about 17% of the global land surface and stores an estimated one-third ...