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There aren’t a lot of things that are as annoying as it is to spin up a new SSD, only to find it’s not even close to the performance that was advertised.

The More You Know: This week, researchers successfully reconstructed videos from the brain activity of mice. According to a new study, female birds are more likely to sing when their extended families help with childcare. And mathematicians have disproven a decades-old classical geometry rule by constructing two compact, self-contained torus objects that have the same

A team of US researchers has gained new insights into how large protein molecules consistently fold themselves into useful shapes. Using a new approach to fluorescence microscopy, Hoi Sung Chung and colleagues at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases have shown that the process likely occurs through the coordinated folding of

A single server smashed the pi world record, churning out 314 trillion digits in 110 days.

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Democrats on Capitol Hill are accusing Republicans of walking away from attempts to shrink the size of a partial government shutdown that began on Feb. 14, arguing that the impasse over funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) doesn’t need to hold up funding for other agencies. It’s a position that Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I.,

President Donald Trump says the United States will be involved in Iran for “as long as it takes” to disable the country’s nuclear and ballistic weapons programs. It comes as the war that began two weeks ago is having big economic ripple effects in the United States with Americans paying more for gas and oil.