There are eight doors in front of you labeled A through H. Behind one of the doors is a prize. A guard is aware of the ...

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Even if Earth does survive, it won’t be pretty. The temperature of our planet will be about 1,300 degrees C, hot enough to ...

When tested on their own and in mice, these bacterial strains from the human microbiome show promise in accumulating PFAS ...

Four research firms project that the Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act will raise greenhouse gas emissions and likely ...

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Canceled grants and slashed budgets are disproportionately affecting junior health researchers, dealing a major blow to the ...

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The team suspects that neurogenesis happens in other parts of the adult brain, too. In mice, new neurons are regularly made ...

Breakthroughs from two rival experiments, Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X and the Joint European Torus, suggest the elusive dream ...