The "missing baryon problem" plagued scientists for over 20 years. But a new celestial phenomenon and cutting-edge telescopes helped them find it earlier this year.

[Download for PDF/printable version of this article] When I started looking into this subject, I predicted a person’s physical attractiveness would only have minor advantages. I was wrong. In fact, I was so wrong, that in one study, the effects of physical…

BigBird is shown to dramatically improve performance across long-context NLP tasks, producing SOTA results in question answering and summarization.

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Children who receive a few extra years of deworming treatment eventually have better jobs, higher incomes, says study led by Berkeley economist Edward Miguel.

Employees at Blizzard Entertainment, a division of Activision Blizzard Inc., began circulating a spreadsheet on Friday to anonymously share salaries and recent pay increases, the latest example of rising tension in the video game industry over wage disparities…

Legacy generators have pushed back against battery storage on the grid, fearing it would give energy storage companies an unfair advantage, allowing them to buy excess electricity at lower prices when demand is low, storing it until demand – and prices –…

A team of international researchers say the non-profit GEBN was 'front group' for Coca-Cola to promote that a lack of exercise, not a bad diet or sugar, is driving the US obesity epidemic.

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Nature - People who have inherited nerve-altering mutations from the ancient hominins tend to experience more pain.

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