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In the wake of funding cuts to mRNA vaccine research, we revisit a February story about a promising vaccine for pancreatic ...

Humans drove wolves nearly to extinction in the American West. Reintroducing them in 1995 was, and still is, controversial.

The FDA and HHS plan to eliminate petroleum-based food dyes as part of the MAHA agenda. What does science say about their ...

RFK Jr. canceled nearly $500 million in mRNA vaccine research funding. Plus, the latest climate news, from flooding in Alaska ...

Astronomers found a supernova whose lighter outer layers had been stripped away, revealing an inner shell rich in silicon and ...

In July 1925, physicist Werner Heisenberg wrote a letter to Wolfgang Pauli sharing his new ideas about what would eventually ...

Humans drove wolves nearly to extinction in the American West. Reintroducing them in 1995 was, and still is, controversial.

Neurologist Bruce Dobkin started hearing a phantom choir singing on a loop after he received a cochlear implant. He’s not the ...

First Known Use: 1997 Etymology: Many assume the word emoji has roots in emotion, but the resemblance is purely coincidental. It actually comes from the Japanese for picture (絵, pronounced eh), plus ...

Okay, but how exactly did sex come about? Science journalist Rachel Feltman dives into the saucy science of doing it.