Physicists have nailed a fiendishly difficult measurement — the mass of the fundamental particle the W boson. The result, from the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is in line ...

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Three scientists are honored for developing a class of blockbuster weight-loss drugs. Is a Nobel prize on the way?

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Growing awareness of how addiction and trauma are intertwined has birthed a new generation of treatment strategies.

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Neuroscientists at the University of Barcelona set about on a search for brain areas involved in chess-related tasks so that ...

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Illuminating the experience of people living with sickle cell could improve patients’ lives and enhance all of medicine ...