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At universities and startups around the globe, researchers are searching for microbes that could be used as food.

George Floyd's life was stolen from him, and his murder matters because of that. But the trajectory that took him from one formerly vibrant Black community to another then to an untimely death belongs to a larger story of systemic racial injustice.

Trump's clemency for Hoover and other drug offenders follows a pattern that began during his first term in the White House. Trump pardoned or commuted the sentences of at least 13 people convicted of federal drug crimes between 2017 and 2021.

As powerful as the Large Hadron Collider is, it does have one blind spot: long-lived neutral particles that can slip through the detector before they're found. Coming up soon is an upgrade, called MATHUSLA, that hopes to change that.

The new executive order allows political appointees to undermine research they oppose, paving the way for state-controlled science

The GENIUS Act isn’t just a crypto giveaway — it could turn tech giants into unregulated banks.

Understanding why Trump is using El Salvador to test the limits of illegal deportation requires returning to the US’s long history of outsourcing violence.

The U.S. was born in war and has waged a war of some sort in every year of its existence. Silicon Valley knows that war is good for business. Many of its most powerful people want us to stop worrying about ethics or ecology and love the bomb.

One of the long-running show's biggest villains didn't earn her redemption.

Harry Braverman’s arguments in his classic book Labor and Monopoly Capital presciently forecasted much of our present labor regime — and can help us move beyond it.