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Researchers already know that problems in certain parts of the brain will cause people to be sexually attracted to children. And now they’re finding other differences in the hope of creating a cure for pedophilia. I’m of the opinion, however, that there’s a big difference between being attracted to a child and acting on that [...]

“The challenge is to find a safer, more efficient and economical way to store hydrogen so that it can be released on demand,” explained chemist Sean McGrady, the lead researcher on the project. “The way to do this is to turn hydrogen into a compound — a solid — so you can use it when [...]

While a 16-qubit quantum computer is not that impressive, only being able to perform 65,536 computations in parallel, just the fact that they have a working quantum computer at all is a big deal. Given the absurd pace of technological development, can it be that long before we have a “real” quantum computer, capable of [...]

Wonder how they might test this on humans—is there a database of people who can’t smell? Full article here.

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