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HOUSTON, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- University of Texas researchers say Hassall's corpuscles -- cells in the thymus gland that were discovered in 1849 -- are important in human immune systems. Scientists at ...

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IT DOES not require any knowledge of quantum physics to recognise quantum weirdness. The oldest and grandest of the quantum mysteries relates to a question that has exercised great minds at least ...

More than 150 years after the discovery of Hassall's corpuscles in 1849, the function of these round blobs of cells in the human thymus gland has now been explained. The answer, in turn, ends an ...

When J.J. Thomson stood before the Royal Institution in 1897 to share his latest findings, few in the audience likely realized just how much physics was about to change. The particles he described — ...