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Jennifer Allen is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. She will start as an assistant professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business in the technology, operations and ...

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How much of what we know about ourselves do we tell others? Plainly it varies with the individuals involved. This variation is examined as an approach to the problem of how we form personal ...

Neurons in certain brain areas integrate ‘what’ and ‘when’ information to discern hidden order in events happening in real ...

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In the next two weeks, a recently discovered comet will almost certainly become bright enough to see without optical aid; ...