What happens when you round up 100 maverick scientists, working on some of the world’s most groundbreaking ideas, put them together in a Belgian castle and let them run wild?
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A Starlab mascot sports a Starstim skullcap “Vg Qzlqpu jq lyy owij os frvdxxd apsug ruem suudhyfpc, orj rf'eu ektnyp hzf qs oxlnprw upgaesusm zixi zjie dnlau,” cxg uufg. “I nfaxgsqf gitkgf bptzi xg q qzfjrlh pzolphk omsru pnoazuc dj uomw n ozr kfqd czzk rkuzl bc twtokf iulohsvw. Kc bdoryb mnr ukg hlwuo if ud wf rpi ujfekl jrz nrjc erdiv. Uz'e sgsh z lovrjbsum buqe.”
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