The game-changing Vera Rubin Observatory will collect more astronomical data in its first year than all other telescopes ...

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Andy Reisinger is an honorary associate professor at the Institute for Climate, Energy and Disaster Solutions at the Australian National University.

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U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., abruptly removes all 17 sitting members of the CDC’s ...

The Trump administration is targeting still more federal science funding, this time more than $30 billion at the ...

Researchers followed gorillas for years to uncover truffle-hunting behavior—and it may be socially transmitted ...

In recent years COVID shots joined flu shots as an annual offering at most neighborhood pharmacies. But the current ...

The idea to study the potentially beneficial influence of mind wandering on information processing occurred to us during the ...