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André Hesselbäck uses his photographic memory and higher-education expertise to sniff out rampant credential fraud and degree mills.

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For the first time, chemists have made a class of molecules previously thought too unstable to exist, and used them to ...

The annual toxic smog that forms over swathes of India and Pakistan is preventable, but the nations’ scientists have too ...