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Academic paper in comic form explores ethics of treating torturer with PTSD

Is it possible to ethically treat someone with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) developed as a result of inflicting torture on others? That's the...

China and the United States will compete for launch supremacy in 2020

For the second year in a row, China dominated the global rankings in terms of orbital launches. The communist country finished 2019 with...

Apple targets jailbreaking in lawsuit against iOS virtualization company

Apple has expanded a lawsuit against an iOS virtualization company, claiming that its actions facilitate jailbreaking and violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act...

Apple and GPU-maker Imagination make nice in new licensing deal

Imagination Technologies, which used to provide the graphics processors for Apple's mobile devices, has entered into a new licensing agreement with Apple that...

Man with 5.5-inch horn growing on his back slipped “through the net,” docs say

Smartphones won’t make you grow horns—but neglecting a worsening skin cancer lesion for years could do the trick. Further ReadingDebunked:...

Oracle copied Amazon’s API—was that copyright infringement?

Charles Duan is the Director of Technology and Innovation Policy at the R Street Institute, a nonprofit think tank based in Washington, DC...

EPA science board to EPA management: Try using some science

The Environmental Protection Agency has a Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) that has the ability to review actions taken by the agency and provide...

Clustering pattern of Azteca ant colonies may be due to a Turing mechanism

There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special...

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