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Teleportation has quietly shifted from pure fantasy to a working laboratory tool, and the latest experiments are starting to spill out of physics labs into real-world networks. The headline ...

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Casey Harrell using a brain-implant interface. (Regents of the University of California, Davis) This Week in Science: A world first, a strange human pattern, and much more! We start with something you ...

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From Spain to Japan, experiments have repeatedly shown a left-turn bias, but exact mechanic ‘is still an open question’ ...

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