Major papers from the University of Minnesota on Alzheimer’s disease and stem cells retracted

Years after questions were raised about their integrity, two of the University of Minnesota’s most prominent scientific discoveries have been retracted within a week: one that offered hope for the therapeutic potential of stem cells and another that offered a promising path to treating Alzheimer’s disease. The studies are more than a decade old and … Read more

PVKK from the Dome Keeper developers is Papers Please, but you get a huge planetary defense cannon

PVKK: Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant – yes, let’s go back to the title – is described in the first sentence of its Steam bio as a “fun” game. I have suspicions about cozy or cozy games, as they are increasingly portrayed as some kind of antidepressant in the face of a darkening world, but that’s okay because the remaining seventeen words in the sentence are: ‘Operate your planetary defense cannon to defend the world. of an interplanetary invasion from the comfort of your home [cozy] bunker.”

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