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The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) is ending support for research using human fetal tissue. Agency chief Jay ...

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By mapping areas where seismometers in southern California detected sonic booms, researchers at Johns Hopkins University and ...

A new study found that women in Finland who had a lot of kids—or none—aged faster than those with one or a few kids. But the ...

A new estimate suggests land sources eject 600 quadrillion pieces of microplastic into the atmosphere every year ...

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The former ISS commander said the crew’s evacuation of the space station left him feeling more confident about human space ...

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Their trunklike fossils were discovered in 1843. Yet despite more than a century of speculation, scientists have struggled to ...