After billions of dollars in spending and decades of planning, NASA may be forced to abandon precious samples of air, rock and soil on the Martian surface. Experts are furious ...

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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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The real drama unfolded when Jill dug into her purse and pulled out the stickers handed to them during check-in by American Airlines staff in Phoenix. These tags—often mindlessly tucked away—held the ...

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Scientific American spoke with DeCarli about the effect that these funding disruptions will have on our understanding of dementia’s causes and the development of new treatments. [An edited ...