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Governor Jerry Brown signed an executive order calling for carbon neutrality by 2045 | Continue reading
As Trump calls for new bomb production, the administration cuts safety board access to nuclear facilities | Continue reading
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Directly detecting this long-predicted phenomenon further validates the Standard Model of particle physics | Continue reading
A new discovery shows how sound waves become brain waves—it may help find new therapies for the hearing-impaired | Continue reading
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Costa Rican scientists are extracting valuable materials from the peel and stubble of pineapples. | Continue reading
Researchers make significant progress toward proving a critical mathematical test of the theory of general relativity | Continue reading
AI will serve our species, not control it | Continue reading
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A computer's microphone and speakers can covertly send and receive data | Continue reading
A controversial new study in lab mice hints at sex-based differences in cosmic ray–induced cognitive decline | Continue reading
Scientists describe the hybrid child of two starkly different human groups | Continue reading
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Donald Trump’s election suggests supporters view an outsider’s lies as symbolic protests against the establishment | Continue reading
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Stephen Asma, professor of philosophy at Columbia College Chicago, talks about his two latest books, The Evolution of Imagination and Why We Need Religion. | Continue reading
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Hail causes most thunderstorm-related damage and could become more common with warming | Continue reading
Check out this year’s winners of The Art of Neuroscience competition | Continue reading
As midterm political campaigns shift into full gear, start-ups are pushing for blockchain-based voting | Continue reading
The steroid drug is intended to help women who suffer from the hormone-driven condition | Continue reading
Grabbing CO 2 as it exits smokestacks is key to fighting climate change | Continue reading
Researchers are developing new treatments for a depression symptom called anhedonia | Continue reading
A barrage of impacts more than four billion years ago is linked to ancient stones found in Canada | Continue reading
The ongoing search for the graviton—the proposed fundamental particle carrying gravitational force—is a crucial step in physicists’ long journey toward a theory of everything | Continue reading
The insects fashion and use "baffles"—sound controllers—made of leaves to produce sound more efficiently. Jason G. Goldman reports. | Continue reading
People infected with the once-deadly virus can now be donors | Continue reading
Trillions of tiny particles generated by our plastic-reliant society are polluting environments worldwide | Continue reading
Speeding up the chemical messenger’s action makes autism-modeling mice more social | Continue reading
The guidelines come from the Association for Computing Machinery | Continue reading
Haul thrills physicists, who previously knew of just a few hundred of these peculiar materials | Continue reading
Researchers programmed a computer to compare structures and toxic effects of different chemicals, making it possible to then predict the toxicity of new chemicals based on their structural similarity to known ones. | Continue reading
Mosquitoes are more likely to bite hosts when they are thirsty, possibly increasing disease spread | Continue reading