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A few years ago, researchers made the unnerving discovery that in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease, disordered clumps of abnormal...
One of the many things to appreciate about our home planet is that buried in its layers of rock is a kind of time machine. These strata tell us so...
Before we have an anti-aging drug for humans, we’re likely to have one for dogs. Multiple clinical trials are currently under way to test potential...
The field of cancer biology is a mess. Signs of trouble emerged years before the most recent scandal, in which investigators found evidence of data...
The year 2023 had barely begun when scientists got some jolting news. On Jan. 4, a paper appeared in Nature claiming that disruptive scientific...
Peter Hotez, a vaccine scientist from Baylor College of Medicine, has been receiving a stream of hate mail. Much of it is unhinged, paranoid and...
Every year, scientists make amazing new discoveries — findings that often don’t get the attention they deserve. War, tragedy and political...
During the pandemic years, Americans’ trust in scientists fell, according to a recently released Pew poll. In 2019, only 13% of Americans were...
Until recently, physicist Ranga Dias was enjoying burgeoning stardom for a scientist. He was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Next Innovators and...
The world’s massive human population is leveling off. Most projections show we’ll hit peak humanity in the 21st century, as people choose to have...
If humanity survives for thousands more years, our primary energy source could very likely be nuclear fusion. It’s clean, the fuel is inexhaustible...