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Why do wombats poo cubes and turkeys spirals? One woman is finding out

18 December 2018

Engineer Patricia Yang won an IgNobel prize for flushing out a universal law of animal urination. Next up? Discovering why wombat stools come out as cubes

How an AI expert’s cancer diagnosis may lead to a treatment revolution

18 July 2018

When Regina Barzilay was diagnosed with breast cancer, she was shocked at how haphazard the process was – and vowed to use her expertise to change things

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Why do wombats poo cubes and turkeys spirals? One woman is finding out

How an AI expert’s cancer diagnosis may lead to a treatment revolution

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