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Cancer cells

Cancer algorithm uses game theory to double survival time

7 March 2018

Using algorithms to monitor cancer evolution and apply game theory to their treatment has doubled the survival time of men with advanced prostate cancer
We may have already found signs of alien microbes on Enceladus

We may have already found signs of alien microbes on Enceladus

27 February 2018

Earth microbes have shown they can withstand the environment on Enceladus. If alien life is similar, the methane we’ve found on Saturn’s moon could be from life

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