The internet erupted in controversy over Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues’ claim of a microbe thriving on arsenic. Nearly 15 ...

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International Day of Women and Girls in Science is an opportunity to shine the spotlight on women working in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) roles, promoting the career paths and ...

Fans of Scientific American might have hoped that activist journalism would leave the magazine along with former editor Laura ...

An ambitious, multinational research project co-led by the University at Buffalo has demonstrated that Earth's biodiversity ...

U.S. scientists, unaccustomed to shock-and-awe political assaults, are reeling from President Donald Trump’s executive orders ...

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