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PLOS Medicine is an open-access, peer-reviewed medical journal that publishes outstanding human studies that substantially enhance the understanding of human health and disease.

Try F# is an easy on-ramp to learning F#, a simple and pragmatic programming language combining functional, object-oriented and scripting programming. During the webinar you will learn how to use the tutorials to solve real-world scenarios, including analytical programming and information-rich programming encountered in finance and data science. At the end of the webinar you will be able to bring the web of data to your fingertips through type providers, write code in the browser and share it with the rest of the community.

Researchers are perfecting ways to produce gate-all-around devices

Max Levchin, who in his past life started PayPal and Slide is back at it again. He has started a new hybrid R& D Lab/Incubator (HVF) and his focusing on opportunities created by the digitization of our physical world and explosion of data.

It's been 20 years (to the month) since Kowloon Walled City was demolished, but amazingly, it remains one of the most dense structures ever built.

It's hard to remember life before we were bombarded with notifications throughout the day on all manner of devices, for everything from Twitter replies to earthquake alerts in Japan. With very few...

Three days of discussion among archaeologists studying five ancient cultures around the world kicks off with best wishes from a modern Maya leader and revelations about a strange artifact from ancient China.

Experts have come up with their most accurate estimate yet for the impact of melting ice sheets and glaciers on sea level.

We take a look at the increasing shift in power from Western universities, to those based in Asia and it's affect on studying abroad.

Chris French: The bomb detectors sold by James McCormick exploit a well known psychological phenomenon that can fool the unwary

A group of Japan-based companies have come up with a device that could very well offer a good deal of competition to Google Glass.

Sure, it can messy. But this Open Web workflow will test your assumptions and give you better results.

NEW YORK: Every week, a group of teenagers and 20-somethings dressed in hoodies gets together in a tiny room on a college campus and plug in their laptops. They turn up pulsing electronic funk...

Travel is transforming the world, and not always for the better. Though it's an uncomfortable reality (who doesn't like to travel?), it's something award-winning journalist Elizabeth Becker devoted five years of her life to investigating.

This could be a new startup idea: creating an Excel-compatible software, working just like Excel, but able to handle bigger datasets, much faster.
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Induction-powered, splinter-sized device wirelessly transmits data from seven biosensors to the Web