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Pancreatic cancer may evade the immune system using a clever molecular trick. Researchers found that the cancer-driving ...

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Topological materials could usher in a new age of electronics, but scientists are still discovering surprising aspects of ...

Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History investigated old specimens that had been at the museum for decades and ...

For decades, aging has looked like a one-way street, a slow accumulation of damage written into our cells. Now a wave of ...

Researchers find obelisks, mysterious RNA molecules in human bacteria that challenge our understanding of viruses and ...

Scientists have developed facial recognition software for bears that they say will decrease maulings. They say using this ...

For more than a decade we have been reporting on a radical idea from the University of Birmingham that makes recycling rare ...

From street-level measurements to long-term health studies, researchers are building a clearer picture of the impact of ...

Chances are that all your encounters with frozen water—while trudging through slushy winter streets, perhaps, or treating yourself to cool summer lemonades—have been confined to one structural form of ...

Most Americans say they trust scientists to act in the public’s best interests, though confidence is lower than it was before ...