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Personal, even “scientific,” bias can creep in. Among the subjective effects of the ultrasound stimulation that were cited in the article, I was most concerned with the phrase “distorted ...

People can see that the scientific predictions have been correct all along. They are increasingly worried about their health and their children’s well-being. They are feeling the human impact.

President Biden issued an executive order to permit data centers on federal lands in a move aimed at bolstering clean energy and protecting national security during a boom in artificial ...

The Parker Solar Probe will swoop just 6.1 million kilometers above the sun’s surface on Christmas Eve. Scientists are thrilled at what we might learn ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for NASA administrator, Jared Isaacman, is a major supporter of human-crewed space exploration, but his views on the climate science that the agency does are ...

We discuss a big week for commercial spaceflight, a red dye ban and a scary spider species in this news roundup. Linguists think that the words that we use to express pain might tell us something ...

Some influencers claim that certain foods that contain chemicals called lectins — including beans, grains and some vegetables ...

People with the skin condition psoriasis often have invisible inflammation in the small intestine with an increased ...

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