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What it was like to be on the ground when sirens played on TV
I’ve been reporting from the ground for five years. I’ve covered elections, protests, accidents, communal violence and the environment. I’ve waited outside police stations and hospitals, slept on station floors, travelled overnight to…
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Modeling trap dynamics in oxide-engineered heterostructure TFETs for breast cancer detection
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Alleged Bondi gunmen did not train in the Philippines and acted alone, police say
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Identification of a novel gene associated with group B Streptococcus persister cell formation and biofilm production
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