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A federal appeals court said the patent office made legal errors in awarding foundational patents for CRISPR-Cas9 to the ...

Researchers are arguing over whether ‘disruptive’ or ‘novel’ science is waning – and how to remedy the problem.

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A student accidentally happened upon a new type of self-shaping liquid that seems to defy the very laws of physics.

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An 80,000-year-old bone point found in Eastern Europe challenges the idea that migrating Homo sapiens gave the technology to Neandertals.

The scientists led by Professor Premkumar Senguttuvan and PhD scholar Biplab Patra, engineered a novel material for the anode ...

Richard Garwin was a particle physicist and inventor with a lifelong mission to nudge the US government towards rational, ...