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For the second year in a row, US President Donald Trump has proposed significant cuts to the budgets of major US science ...

A new study helps narrow down the reasons why Black people undergoing infertility treatment have fewer live births ...

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The U.S. space agency’s Skyfall project calls for sending robotic helicopters to Mars on a nuclear-powered spacecraft before ...

These guidelines reinforce the importance of whole grains and fruit and vegetables but clash with the government’s latest ...

Charles H. Bennett and Gilles Brassard, winners of this year’s Turing Award, spent their lives touting the advantages of the ...

Fresh-water-saturated sediment or bedrock may extend as deep as three or four kilometers below the Great Salt Lake’s basin, a ...

James Cameron tells Scientific American how his latest documentary, Secrets of the Bees, reveals an intimate view of the ...

Artemis II’s AVATAR experiment will see organs-on-a-chip travel to the moon and back, revealing how such a journey affects ...

The eye is essentially a biological camera. It uses the light around us to create spectacular images that help us navigate ...

How could this be? This counterintuitive finding is a consequence of what’s called Simpson’s paradox, a phenomenon that is ...