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At Yale, a Surge of Activism Forced Changes in Mental Health Policies

Barbara Chase -
In the weeks after Rachael Shaw-Rosenbaum, a first-year student at Yale, died by suicide in 2021, a group of strangers began convening on...
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Undying Dread: A 400-Year-Old Corpse, Locked to Its Grave

Barbara Chase -
If reports from the time are to be believed, 17th-century Poland was awash in revenants — not vampires, exactly, but proto-zombies who harassed...
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Undying Dread: A 400-Year-Old Corpse, Locked to Its Grave

Barbara Chase -
If reports from the time are to be believed, 17th-century Poland was awash in revenants — not vampires, exactly, but proto-zombies who harassed...
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Douglas Lenat, Who Tried to Make Computers More Human, Dies at 72

Barbara Chase -
Douglas Lenat, an artificial intelligence researcher who spent nearly 40 years trying to build common sense into computers, recreating human judgment one logical...
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Urban Animals Can’t Take the Heat, Study Finds

Barbara Chase -
Don’t let the rats fool you. Although the pizza-pilfering vagabonds — and a variety of other creatures — thrive in cities, for many...
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Back to New Jersey, Where the Universe Began

Barbara Chase -
A few miles away, Robert Dicke, a physicist at Princeton, and his students had begun looking into the conditions under which the universe...
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Long Covid Poses Special Challenges for Seniors

Barbara Chase -
Ask Patricia Anderson how she is doing, and you probably will not get a routine answer. “Today, I’m working and I’m fine,” she...
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Long Covid Poses Special Challenges for Seniors

Barbara Chase -
Ask Patricia Anderson how she is doing, and you probably will not get a routine answer. “Today, I’m working and I’m fine,” she...
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India Launches Its First Solar Mission

Barbara Chase -
Weeks after successfully landing a rover on the moon, India on Saturday launched its first solar mission aimed at studying the outer layers...
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Europe’s Boars Still Hold Radioactivity. What Surprised Scientists Is Why.

Barbara Chase -
Although scientists have long known that flora and fauna in Central Europe still carry traces of radiation stemming from the 1986 meltdown at...
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