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Understanding why some faults creep rather than sticking and causing massive earthquakes is important for gauging the future risk of both earthquakes and tsunamis.

Epigenetic aging clocks allow scientists to study how populations age. They aren't intended for individuals to make health decisions.

Eating fiber can prevent a number of health issues, and you might need to eat more than you think.

Data centers need powerful chips, while smartphones need chips that are energy efficient. A supply chain scholar explains why chipmakers' focus on the former comes at the expense of the latter.

Advances in genetic engineering have enabled researchers to seek ways to program new life. But has synthetic biology actually changed medicine and the environment, nearly two decades on?

Each study adds a piece to the puzzle of scientific knowledge. But any one study on its own doesn't tell you all that much.

Astronauts report feeling profoundly awestruck when they go to space, an anthropologist reports. This experience shapes their perspectives even back on Earth.

The Trump administration fired the entire board that oversees the National Science Foundation, raising an age-old question about the separation of science and state.

Geofencing warrants round up the location data of everyone in a specific place and time, whether or not they had any connection to a crime - a test of the Fourth Amendment in the digital age.

You can change a stolen password or credit card, but you can't reset your face when your biometric data is breached.