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A nasal spray version of the drug ketamine has shown promise as an antidepressant, even if its properties still aren’t well understood.

The EU is set to end daylight saving time in 2021, at least in some states. The European Parliament has taken another step towards freeing members of the bloc from the mandated change, but why is it taking so long?

Let's experiment with making news products so relevant that people pull them into their lives

The multiverse may be an artifact of a deeper reality that is comprehensible and unique

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Instagrammers love the colorful homes on Paris’s Rue Crémieux. Frustrated residents want gates to lock them out.

Exploration of Balamku (Cave of the Jaguar God) reveals ancient religious practices—and may hold clues to the rise and fall of the Maya empire.

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This PEP proposes adding merge (|) and update (|=) operators to the built-in dict class.

Version 12.0 of the Unicode Standard is now available, including the core specification, annexes, and data files. This version adds 554 cha...

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On average, three people read an academic paper. At least 100,000 have read this—and a lot of them haven't taken it very well.

One year ago, we received a contract as a PDF file. It was digitally signed. We looked at the document - ignoring the "certificate is not tr...