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Engelmann says that from the beginning of the Western intellectual tradition, people thought that only humans are rational.

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An academic has used ten of Iris Murdoch’s novels and some newly discovered poems to illuminate scientific concepts.

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Hypersonic planes could fly from Sydney to Los Angeles in just an hour. What's standing in the way of such ultra-fast planes ...

Scientists at The Wistar Institute have solved a longstanding puzzle in ovarian cancer treatment: why anti-estrogen therapy often fails even when tumors express the hormone receptor that should make ...

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