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Nov. 13, 2025 — Researchers have designed a smart drug that hunts down and breaks a little-known RNA that cancer cells depend on. The drug recognizes a unique fold in the RNA and triggers the cell to ...

A trove of e-mails from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was released by a congressional committee on Wednesday For years, a French mathematician searched for a proof that a gigantic number is ...