Fifteen cases of measles reported in small West Texas county with high rate of vaccine exemptions
A small county in West Texas has 15 measles cases, mostly in school-aged children. Gaines County, which borders New Mexico, ...
Slashing Science Funding Is the Opposite of Efficiency
The Trump administration’s cuts to university research grants will make America sicker and poorer in the long run.
Her Discovery Wasn’t Alien Life, but Science Has Never Been the Same
The internet erupted in controversy over Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues’ claim of a microbe thriving on arsenic. Nearly 15 ...
Experience, not labels, drives participation in citizen science projects
Citizen science projects are meant to involve the public in research, but researchers are starting to ask if the name itself is exclusionary. Could "citizen" discourage Indigenous people and ...
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Is Chocolate Good For Your Heart? Here's What Science Says
For hundreds of years, people have turned to chocolate to boost heart health. Back in the 1500s, the indigenous Aztec people ...
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How the world can tackle the yawning gender gap in the sciences
We speak with Susan Garder, director of UNEP’s Ecosystems Division, about what can be done to encourage more women to enter – ...
Mirror life is a scientific fantasy leading to a dangerous reality − a synthetic biologist explains how mirror bacteria could conquer life on Earth
Most major biological molecules, including all proteins, DNA and RNA, point in one direction or another. In other words, they are chiral, or handed. Like how your left glove fits only your left hand ...