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Charles H. Bennett and Gilles Brassard, winners of this year’s Turing Award, spent their lives touting the advantages of the ...

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Security feeds and traffic cameras have helped guide some of the most audacious targeted killings in modern history. Security ...

James Cameron tells Scientific American how his latest documentary, Secrets of the Bees, reveals an intimate view of the ...