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Lauren C. Teffeau and Sarena Ulibarri are imaginative Albuquerque writers of what is known as speculative fiction. Their ...

O n a freezing night in January, several hundred people came to Boston’s Museum of Science for a town hall-style discussion ...

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The next novel by Ian McEwan will be a post-apocalyptic story, set in part in the 22nd century and centered on a scholar’s ...

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a huge funder of biomedical research, has cut a $60-million initiative to boost ...

Trump seems intent on freezing out professional scientists, especially those with strong academic research backgrounds.

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Who wins? A new study reveals the truth about seduction and who women find more desirable to date or in a relationship.

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A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

A “mycology thriller” imagines a hidden healing mushroom. In real life, scientists are searching far and wide to map the world’s unseen fungi.