Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have detected what appears to be a faint and small star-forming ...

Switching clocks twice a year disrupts circadian rhythms in ways that harm health. Stanford scientists found permanent ...

Science isn’t really moving towards equity; institutions are just perfecting the appearance of equity. We need to build an alternative system.

A protein historian and evolutionary biochemist found that a protein sequence present across all known life didn’t form as ...

In the US, more than 90% of corn plants are genetically modified to withstand weed-killing chemicals like glyphosate, to make ...

STEM jobs – ranging from software engineer to physicist, to plumber – tend to be well paid. And women tend to be underrepresented in these fields. New research suggests one reason starts in kids’ ...

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