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In 1929 Ridgley Whiteman, then just a teenager, made an archeological discovery that would forever change our understanding of the first...

It’s a common, straightforward idea in science: When a viral, bacterial, or parasitic pathogen sneaks its way into a host...

President Joe Biden's Intelligence Advisory Board now includes a top climate scientist. Biden recently announced the appointment of Kim Cobb,...

Old-school paleontologists would have frowned upon a colleague referring to a fossil find as anything like a dragon. Certainly in...

There is no simple fix for injuries in the brain: You can’t just slap on some gauze or stick it...

Keeping global warming within 1.5 degrees Celsius is “currently not plausible,” warns a new report from the University of Hamburg....

The World Food Programme (WFP) estimates that 349 million people in 79 countries are facing "acute food insecurity," an increase of 200...

The mammalian circadian clock strongly influences when and to what extent certain genes are transcribed in each tissue throughout the...

Cancer is common in dogs. About one in four will develop cancer at some point during its lifetime—and that proportion...

This article was originally published on Oct. 9, 2020.The scientific world is in the midst of a decade-long psychedelic renaissance....