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After Watergate, Congress tried to curtail the role of money in politics. But a pivotal Supreme Court case nipped it in the bud. Years later, new details are emerging on how wealthy Americans were ...

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Integrating single-cell multi-omics data remains challenging. Here, the authors benchmark 23 integration methods including foundation models across diverse datasets, revealing task-specific trade-offs ...

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Freedom of speech is a bellwether: how any society tolerates those with minority, disfavored, or even obnoxious views will often speak to its performance on human rights more generally. In ...

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