Efforts by leaders of the US national academies to adjust to the new political reality have spurred member concerns about ...

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Telltale features visible in standard brain images can reveal how quickly a person is ageing, a study of more than 50,000 ...

Virtual chatbots that simulate conversations with famous actors or sci-fi characters can have real-world consequences.

The scale of funding cuts in the United States means that countless scientists will lose their jobs. It would be naive not to ...

Inflammation, thought to be a driver of age-related disease, does not worsen with age in some Indigenous communities.

The results of technology research and development must find their way into the published literature. New models of regulation could help.

In 2008, researchers reported that these rocks dated back 4.3 billion years 2, a claim that other scientists contested. Work ...

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If Stephen Quake gets his way, biologists in the future will spend a lot less time wielding pipettes. “Our goal,” he says, ...

Results align with other efforts to count the number of people killed amid the ongoing conflict.

Thimerosal is found in only a small fraction of US vaccine doses but has long been viewed with suspicion by the ...