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A group of scientists, including Sergey Frolov, professor of physics at the University of Pittsburgh, and co-authors from ...

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Humanity's encounter with interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has veered from astronomical curiosity into the centre of a scientific ...

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Section 1. Policy and Purpose. Over the last 5 years, confidence that scientists act in the best interests of the public has fallen significantly. A majority of researchers in science, technology, ...

“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!” With a sly grin that I’d soon come to recognize, Paul Ginsparg quoted Michael Corleone from The Godfather. Ginsparg, a physics professor at ...