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This video is part of “Innovations In: Type 1 Diabetes,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Vertex. Tom Lum: On the surface, this may look like ...

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In October 1995, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson hadn’t yet become the pop culture science star he is today. Tyson was newly appointed as the interim director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York ...

A friend of mine told me this fantastic joke recently: Werner Heisenberg is driving down the highway and a police officer stops him. “Sir, do you know you’re going 82 m.p.h.?” the officer asks.