Consistent with the general trend of incorporating artificial intelligence into nearly every field, researchers and ...

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In his 37-volume “Natural History,” first published in 77 C.E., the Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder explored the minutiae of everyday life. The encyclopedic work describes the places where people ...

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the new director of the National Institutes of Health, just announced the cancellation of more than $500 million in research contracts for RNA-based medical treatments because of ...

Even if you don’t recall many facts from high school biology, you likely remember the cells required for making babies: egg and sperm. Maybe you can picture a swarm of sperm cells battling each other ...

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An international group of researchers says that biodiversity conservation and scientific research are not benefiting from the ...

T he last two decades have not been kind to science studies. Already bruised and battered by the “science wars” of the 1990s, by the 2000s sociologists of science — who had long argued that science ...

This year is the centennial of one of the most celebrated trials in American history. In Dayton, Tennessee, a local schoolteacher, John Scopes, volunteered to be the defendant. He was prosecuted for ...

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