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The only countries that will really learn more if [U.S. nuclear] testing resumes are Russia and, to a much greater extent, ...

The dispute centered on an honors chemistry exam. But what was really at stake, said parent Shilpa Viswanathan, was what was "right." ...

An extrapolation technique aims to address the gap between Hall effect thruster performance in space and in laboratory ...

Microbiologist Thomas Brock was tramping through Yellowstone in the 1960s when he stumbled upon a species of bacteria that would transform medical science. Brock was investigating the tiny life-forms ...

Quantum information science and quantum information technology have seen a virtual explosion worldwide. The explosion is all based on the observation that fundamental quantum phenomena on the ...

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Conversion therapy ‒ the practice of attempting to alter someone's sexual orientation or gender identity through a variety of methods ‒ has long been debunked by scientists, doctors and survivors ...

Pig wings grown from bone marrow. Credit: Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr. It sounds like something from a Black Mirror episode: the cells of a late composer “playing” music in a gallery, pig bone sculpted ...

Around four years ago, now 77-year-old John Gormly went for what was supposed to be a routine blood test. But the results were life-changing. The test suggested Gormly had colon cancer, which a ...

Humankind's tangled shrub of ancestry now has a new branch: Researchers in the Philippines announced today that they have discovered a species of ancient human previously unknown to science. “For a ...

Doha, Qatar: Across the world, challenges have always been catalysts for innovation. In the Arab region, Stars of Science has quietly forged something extraordinary: a generation of innovators who ...