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The Office of Management and Budget has proposed rule changes to insert a political review step into the scientific ...

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Astronomer and Queen guitarist Brian May teams up with astrophysicist Derek Ward-Thompson to bring the cosmos to 3D. Plus, Frances Arnold’s game-changing technique of “directed evolution” creates ...

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