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Guidance for employers and their counsel on navigating litigation involving trade secret misappropriation, including pre-litigation steps, cease and desist letters, forum selection, choice of law, ...

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Optical physics is the study of the fundamental properties of light and its interaction with matter. This includes classical optical phenomena such as reflection, refraction, diffraction and ...

NASA gears up for a historic lunar flyby, AI gives stroke patients hope, and researchers discover the oldest known cave art What’s on the road to the launch of NASA’s Artemis II, how scientists are ...

What is quantum physics? Put simply, it’s the physics that explains how everything works: the best description we have of the nature of the particles that make up matter and the forces with which they ...

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Financial markets aren’t filled with perfectly rational actors. Even professional investors, who make their living conducting investment research, see a persistent gap between real and reported ...

Imagine someone has chronic pain. One doctor focuses on the body part that hurts and keeps trying to fix that single symptom. Another uses a more comprehensive brain-body approach and tries to ...