Every sight, sound, and touch you experience is the result of calculations your brain makes before reality even reaches you. What does it mean for your choices?
These are dangerous times. Scientists globally must stand together for sound science and resist bigotry, bias and hate. To honor one of its core values — a commitment to the truth wherever it might lead — scientists must stand up when DEI matters.
Breach of Kakhovka Dam now threatens seasonal floods thick with toxic heavy metals, other pollutants
The main thing to know: MMR vaccines are highly effective and provide long-lasting protection. Outbreaks occur mainly among unvaccinated individuals. But here's more about boosters, young children, infection-induced immunity and transmission.
Bacterial vaginosis is most likely a sexually transmitted infection, according to a new study.
Each cell in your body relies on precise communication with other cells to function properly. At the center of this process are the molecular switches that turn communication signals in the body on and off.
Researchers are organizing protests and making their voices heard as Trump officials slash funding and lay off federal scientists.
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Astronomers believe that a mysterious, invisible substance fills up the universe. Known as dark matter, they think it is a new kind of particle. But efforts over decades to find this particle have come up short.
Think prejudice is overblown? A social psychologist provides the receipts in this densely informative but highly readable account
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