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In a veterinary clinic in Cairo, ten cats with spontaneous mammary carcinoma became the unlikely protagonists of a study that ...

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A provocative new analysis has called into question one of the most celebrated promises of social robotics: that friendly machines ...

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Vitamin B12 deficiency is one of the most common nutritional problems in modern medicine, yet a new consensus from Brazil ...

Aquaculture is one of the fastest growing food sectors on the planet, but raising fish at high density in closed ...

Sugar beet is one of the world’s most important sources of sugar, yet like nearly every crop plant that has ...

For decades, salicylic acid has been known as the chemical alarm bell of the plant world. When pathogens attack, levels ...