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Air pollution may seem like a daily nuisance, but exposure during pregnancy and early childhood can have lasting effects. Paediatric and respiratory specialists explain how polluted air affects lung ...

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New research has discovered that a neural circuit may explain procrastination. Scientists were able to disrupt this ...

Does string theory—the controversial “theory of everything” from physics—tell us anything about consciousness and the human ...