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Seven states are set to implement laws supporting abortion access, but the future of reproductive rights in the US is unclear ...

Two years ago, the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a legal decision that protected the right to abortion. Since then, abortion bans have been enacted in multiple states, and millions of ...

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Rapid advances in applying artificial intelligence to simulations in physics and chemistry have some people questioning whether we will even need quantum computers at all.

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D barcodes enable traceability and authentication for modern commerce, but they require strong data foundations, from supplier to consumer.

Jennifer Doudna, one of the inventors of the breakthrough gene-editing tool CRISPR, says the technology will help the world ...

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