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Grand Challenges for Global Brain Sciences

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Touch and Closeness in Naturally Organized Activities

Atomic level insight into irradiation effects in nuclear fuel materials

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Rebooting Virtual Memory with Midgard

Hits and Misses: Digital Contact Tracing in a Pandemic

Surprise and novelty in the brain

Digital Intervention for Collaborative and Human-Centered Activities in Design-Based Learning Scenarios

OSSCAR, an open platform for collaborative development of computational tools for education in science

A landmark environmental law looks ahead

Shear strength and shear stiffness analysis of compacted Wyoming-type bentonite

Quantifying online citizen science: Dynamics and demographics of public participation in science

Roadmap on Optical Sensors

Morphology of Nanostructured Tantalum Oxide Controls Stem Cell Differentiation and Improves Corrosion Behavior

Artificial intelligence for natural product drug discovery

Advances in polymer-based nanocomposite membranes for water remediation: Preparation methods, critical issues and mechanisms

Extension of the OFFBEAT fuel performance code to finite strains and validation against LOCA experiments

Gamma-Blind Fast Neutron Detection for Spent Nuclear Fuel Characterization

First-person experience cannot rescue causal structure theories from the unfolding argument