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I was recently rereading The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb—a personal favorite of mine. In one chapter, he offers an intriguing parable, which I will ...

Mouse primary motor and somatosensory cortices contain detailed information about the many time-varying arm and paw joint angles during reaching and grasping, implying a 'low-level' role in ...

To help reduce the misuse and misunderstanding of current science, scientific research needs to be explained in language the ...

The Federal Circuit on Friday affirmed a district court’s summary judgment ruling that six patents owned by Innovaport LLC are invalid for claiming ineligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101.

There is an emerging convergence between atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and cancer, driven by shared risk factors and overlapping pathophysiologic mechanisms. Traditional factors, such as ...

Despite decades of research, the mechanisms behind fast flashes of insight that change how a person perceives their world, termed "one-shot learning," have remained unknown. A mysterious type of ...

Premenopausal women presenting with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) are a unique and often underrecognized patient population. Although they are traditionally considered at lower cardiovascular risk ...

Meaning doesn’t stay inside individual brains. Shared attention and language allow meaning to become symbolic, social, and cumulative.

UNPO recently submitted input to the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP) for its study on “the rights of Indigenous Peoples in ...

Opinion: A recent federal appeals court ruling shows the central role that claim drafting and specification language can play in patent eligibility disputes.

Rajeev Dhir is a writer with 10+ years of experience as a journalist with a background in broadcast, print, and digital newsrooms. Betsy began her career in international finance and it has since ...