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The U.S. has one of the world’s most advanced systems to monitor air pollutants. Can it keep up with a changing climate?

As international research projects are upended, European leaders say they will fill the funding void. Is that realistic?

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New evidence suggests the universe might not behave as expected, raising questions about the costs of being wrong.

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When Ebola swept through West Africa in the mid-2010s, Ashish Jha joined a chorus of health experts criticizing the World Health Organization’s response. The global health agency, these critics said, ...

In the spring of 2009, Samantha Noel, then a doctoral researcher at Massey University in Palmerston North, New Zealand, reached into Cow D’s rumen and plucked out a strain of Lachnospiraceae bacterium ...

It isn’t hard to see why. Among mainstream scientists, the word feminist has often been viewed with disdain, hostility, and an implicit belief that feminist ideals are incompatible with true science — ...

The Forensic Anthropology Center was the brainchild of William M. Bass, a renowned osteologist, or bone specialist, who joined the forensic anthropology faculty at the University of Tennessee in 1971.