The first Monday of 2026 is already shaping up to be one heck of an example of its species, but instead of trudging your way ...

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Washington correspondent, CBS News 24/7 and CBS Stations Natalie Brand is a Washington correspondent covering the White House and Capitol Hill for CBS News 24/7 and CBS Stations. The animals that live ...

In a sweeping paper in Biology Letters published today, Aug. 5, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) scientists are calling for a dramatic shift in when biologists study animals in their ...

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Institute for Systems Biology co-founder Leroy Hood will become Providence Health & Services chief science officer under the new affiliation between the non-profit groups. The non-profit Institute for ...

Rice University has opened five new research institutes and increased funding of existing ones in recent months as part of a broader effort to boost the private university's graduate program under ...

This story orginally appeared in the 2015-2016 issue of Yale Engineering Magazine. If you’ve never played chess, the rules are simple to learn. There are two players, each with six types of pieces, ...