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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has drawn intense criticism—much of it deserved—for his stance on vaccines. But lost in the uproar is a ...

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Since theNational Science Foundation first started collecting postgraduation data nearly 70 years ago, the number of Ph.D.s ...

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Physicists at the University of Oxford have successfully simulated how light interacts with empty space – a phenomenon once ...

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) can ‘catch’ yawns from an android imitating human facial expressions, according to new research ...

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To Shakespeare’s Hamlet we humans are “the paragon of animals”. But recent advances in genetics are suggesting that humans ...

In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday has released the data behind the ...

Eating a high-fat diet containing a large amount of oleic acid – a type of fatty acid commonly found in olive oil – could ...