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When the quark hypothesis was first proposed more than 10 years ago, there were supposed to be three kinds of quark. The ...

The Busy Beaver Challenge, a notoriously difficult question in theoretical computer science, is now producing answers so ...

The legendary atheist and evolutionary biologist argues that truth shouldn't bend to faith or fashionable politics.

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