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11 of Our Best Weekend Reads

Welcome to the weekend. It’s the unofficial start of summer in the U.S., though we will toast it without the usual barbecues and get-togethers. Many beaches are open, so we can enjoy the salt and sea once again. Whatever you are doing, I hope that the sun reaches you and …

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The New Hero Serum

“I met Ben [Van Handel] at a lab at the University of Southern California while I was still in medical school,” Amir Nobakht tells me. It was a chance meeting between the would-be orthopedic surgeon and stem cell scientist. The USC researchers were looking for solutions to arthritis, and more …

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U.S. console-hardware spending hits mammoth $427 million in April

You’ve heard the reports that more people turned to video games for entertainment and socialization in April. But now, industry-tracking firm The NPD Group is putting some more numbers to that narrative. Consumers in the United States spent $ 420 million on new Nintendo Switch, Xbox Ones, and PlayStation 4s …

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