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Despite funding cuts, the National Science Foundation gave out 504 additional graduate research fellowships last week.

Sixty-six current and 23 recently-terminated staff at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), along with 253 anonymous ...

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In March, the journal Nature published the discoveries of two paradigm-breaking antimicrobial compounds in as many weeks: a ...

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The program has been exposing high school students to science for 30 years, offering them hands-on experiences, mentorship, ...

Zeldin’s EPA argues that US power plant carbon emissions aren’t ‘significant’—recent study says total is more than most ...