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A common plot device of all those obnoxiously entertaining teen movies from the 2000s actually has some scientific validity. A fifth to a third of straight college women have kissed another woman,

Donald Trump's assault on the American scientific enterprise has been death by a thousand cuts. But the latest push from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) may just be the kill shot. OMB ...

China did not merely recruit an American Nobel laureate. It recruited the research institute, international team, and future discoveries that may form around him. On July 3, Beijing's Tsinghua ...

I nearly failed organic chemistry. That is not how these essays usually open, but it is the truest place to start. I was a student at Andhra Christian College in Guntur, India, and the lecturer's ...

Last August, hundreds of scientists hailing from academia and the pharmaceutical industry gathered in Copenhagen for the 12th Aging Research and Drug Discovery meeting (ARDD). There, they shared ...

You've already inhaled thousands of microscopic particles today. Some will be dust, pollen or soot, and some are plastic. Microplastics - tiny fragments shed from clothes, tyres or packaging -

At any given point there are hundreds of thousands of people in the skies travelling by air. For many, these journeys will pass by without consequence. But for some, a routine flight may trigger a ...

There's a habit of labeling lower-tier journals "predatory." The label is supposed to mark the bottom of the barrel - small open access outfits that charge a few hundred dollars, publish fast, and ...

The recent confirmation of an atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet called LHS 1140b has created a wave of interest within the astronomy community. The planet orbits within the habitable zone around ...

Science has a history of telling a flattering story about itself. It says the truth wins because the evidence wins, that you put a real result in front of the field and the field responds and updates ...