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Should humans colonise space? We asked 5 experts
For roughly 4.5 billion years, the Moon has kept Earth company. In the much shorter…
The H-1B visa fee hike in the United States opens a policy window for Canada
The United States government recently announced a US$100,000 H-1B visa fee on new applications, which…
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Elon Musk is right that Wikipedia is biased, but his AI alternative will be the same at best
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Our team of physicists inadvertently generated the shortest X-ray pulses ever observed
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