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Under President Trump, the Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate offices that track greenhouse gas emissions and ...

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Michael J.D. Vermeer is a senior physical scientist at RAND who studies science and technology policy research in relation to homeland security, criminal justice, the intelligence community and the ...

As the measles outbreak in the U.S. gets bigger, HHS’s secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., touts nonvaccine treatments. But ...

Two leading theories of consciousness went head-to-head—and the results may change how neuroscientists study one of the oldest questions about existence ...

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Einstein offers a lesson for scientists who are protesting an out-of-control nationalist administration attacking U.S.

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