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JAMES WATSON, Nobel laureate and co-discoverer with Francis Crick of the structure of DNA, has never deemed it necessary to hold in what he thinks, no matter how controversial. It would be acceptable to abort a fetus, he...

LAST YEAR the World Health Organisation published a plan to accelerate research into pathogens that could cause public-health emergencies. One priority was the bafflingly named "Disease X". The X stands for unexpected, a...

We invite applications for the 2019 Richard Casement internship. We are looking for a would-be journalist to spend three months of the summer working at the newspaper in London, writing about science and technology. Appl...

(Chalmers University of Technology) Electronegativity is one of the most well-known models for explaining why chemical reactions occur. Now, Martin Rahm from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has redefined the c...

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) The University of Colorado Center for Pharmaceutical Value (PValue) has been established with a Value Assessment Center of Excellence Award from the PhRMA Foundation. The ...

A new study reports experiencing vital exhaustion, a symptom of psychological distress, during mid life may be associated with a higher risk of developing dementia later in life.

Study reveals people with obesity have more mutations in semaphorin signaling in the hypothalamus, implying semaphorins may be critical for maintaining a healthy body weight.

Taking advantage of recent advances in using theoretical calculations to predict the properties of new materials, researchers reported Thursday the discovery of a new class of half-Heusler thermoelectric compounds, inclu...

A new mouse study reveals males recall fearful memories better than females. Researchers attribute the difference to the gene Cdk5, which has previously been implicated in creating fear memories and stress behaviors. The...

Craters on the moon show that it and Earth faced a massive increase in large meteorite strikes about 290 million years ago, which could have endangered life on the planet

Craters on the moon show that it and Earth faced a massive increase in large meteorite strikes about 290 million years ago, which could have endangered life on the planet

Some of the Cassini spacecraft's final measurements of Saturn's gravitational field show that its rings are younger than we thought, and its winds run deeper

Where did we come from? Where are we going? Why do we exist?These are questions that we tend to associate with philosophers and theologians, but they're also critically important to certain fields of physics. Theorists s...

There's a new diet in town, and it offers a two-for-one special: People can help the planet and even live longer ... so long as they stop devouring so many burgers, a new report by an international commission finds.

Pharma firms protect their drugs with hundreds of complex patents but an AI called Chematica can find workarounds, which could potentially make drugs cheaper

A Faustian air filter? THE AIRin modern homes and offices is pretty clean, but not as clean as it might be. Often, it contains small amounts of volatile, toxic, organic compounds such as benzene, formaldehyde, butadiene,...

THE FUZZY specks growing on discs of jelly in Floyd Romesberg's lab at Scripps Research in La Jolla look much like any other culture of E. coli. But appearances deceive--for the DNA of these bacteria is written in an alp...

Fermilab's Inclusivity Journal Club seeks answers to difficult social questions in science. In 2013, when physicist Daniel Bowring first started working at the US Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laborat...

Take a closer look at one of Kenya's most treasured pride of lions.

Who will win this lopsided battle?

Scientists think that they've spotted a rare, Jupiter-size black hole casually strolling through the Milky Way galaxy.

The Norse gods weren't babysitting humanity.