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In 2023, an academic journal, the Annals of Operations Research, retracted an entire special issue because the peer review ...

Researchers at Indiana University and Wuhan University in China have unveiled a groundbreaking chemical process that could ...

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A longstanding question in evolutionary biology is how sexual selection influences how entire genomes develop. Sexual ...