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In the Lost Science series, scientists whose jobs or funding have been cut by the Trump administration tell their stories.

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Stanford Professor Rebecca Silverman discusses a transformative movement backed by research that is changing literacy ...

The 15th edition of The Best Australian Science Writing, edited by Zoe Kean and Tegan Taylor, contains 39 essays and stories that “tell tales of the universe that scientists have worked hard to reveal ...

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Manjit may have developed sepsis from something innocuous, potentially a lick from her dog on a small cut, doctors said.

A psychology study tested dozens of tearjerker clips to see what consistently hit hardest. One movie kept winning, and it became a research staple.