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Indictments, subpoenas, and debarments are hitting American scientists embroiled in the controversy over COVID’s origins.

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Wake up!’”This audacious woman is Dr. Jane Oh (Korean name Jang Mi-jeong), who currently oversees Mars exploration software ...

Most of this article was conceived and written back in the early 1970s. It is excerpted from a book published in 1974. The book was and is titled What Is To Be Undone, a word play on Lenin’s famous ...

Ensemble Studio Theatre and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced ten recipients for their 2026 Science and Technology New ...

Beneath the icy silence of Antarctica's famous Dry Valleys lies a world so unusual that it often resembles another planet.

The hands-down favorite of the Jeopardy! writing team. If you’ve never played, it’s simple: two phrases are mashed together into one, and you have to untangle them. (Example: A famous shark movie + a ...

Nearly two decades ago, four graduate students from MIT united around a shared idea. "We believed that programming cells would ultimately be more important than programming computers," says Jason ...

Scientists are building autonomous robotic labs powered by artificial intelligence. The goal, they say, is for these robots to take over human... Scientists in 'autonomous laboratories' are starting ...

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Scientists have stumbled upon what they’ve dubbed real-life “zombies.” These seemingly immortal things—amputated tissue from the sea cucumber species Psolus fabricii—appear to exist in a gray zone of ...