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Researchers are rethinking what they know. Across the animal kingdom, models have vastly underestimated the energy females invest in reproduction. A lack of women in the field might have led researchers to pay less attention to the costs.

Using Google’s AlphaFold, researchers identified the bundle of three sperm proteins that seem to make sexual reproduction possible.

RFK, Jr.'s plan sounds catchy, but won’t move the national needle. To build a healthier, freer America for all, focus on what truly works, not what merely sounds catchy.

Brain studies show that language is not essential for the cognitive processes that underlie thought

Director Henry Godinez recognizes that today’s divisive political environment might change how the play’s themes of “questioning facts, censoring knowledge” are perceived.

In another election, she might have been asked.

Scientists from the United States, China and other nations called for an international authority to oversee artificial intelligence.

Neurons in certain brain areas integrate ‘what’ and ‘when’ information to discern hidden order in events in real time.