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One of the world’s foremost climate models, a DOE initiative a decade in the works, now faces funding threats.
In her new book, journalist Shoshana Walter takes aim at the nation's drug treatment system and finds it sorely lacking.
Experts in flood mitigation see a national system decades behind. A recently disbanded FEMA advisory group was supposed to ...
The focal point for much of the work in the last few years is NASA’s Health and Air Quality Applied Sciences Team, or HAQAST.
The accidental release of fluoxetine in a aquarium filled with clams gave bivalve husbandry an unexpected new tool.
Ocean acidification occurs when the ocean absorbs excess carbon dioxide, causing its pH to drop. This makes it harder for ...
The research hospital cares for people with rare or life-threatening diseases. This year, patient numbers plummeted.
Researchers typically ask why people get cancer. What if they studied why some survive — or never develop the disease?
Excruciating migraines and cluster attacks seem to collapse the sense of separation between body and self.
In the beginning, the Big Bang happened, sending everything in the universe expanding outward and apart, from a dense hot point. Since then, all that matter and energy has continued to move outward, ...
Lauren Kennedy West was still a teenager when she began to smell and hear things that weren’t there. Then to see things, too, that were invisible to others. Meanwhile, her moods began to intensify, ...
The researchers published their findings in the journal Science in 2017, and the results showed that the parts of the brain responsive to the tone were more active when participants reported hearing ...