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Under Trump, the U.S. will no longer recommended Covid shots for healthy pregnant women. Does the evidence support that ...
An unusual collaboration between scientists and psychics could transform the treatment of auditory hallucinations.
Research funding cuts may lead to shrinking Ph.D. classes, raising concerns about impacts on the science-driven economy.
As the summer field season ramps up, agency researchers are grappling with uncertainty in funding, labor, and logistics.
The original report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.
Larry Saltzman has blood cancer. He’s also a retired doctor, so he knows getting Covid-19 could be dangerous for him — his ...
Sooner than we think, public opinion is going to diverge along ideological lines around rights and moral consideration for artificial intelligence systems. The issue is not whether AI (such as ...
When the World Health Organization approved a malaria vaccine for the first time in October 2021, it was widely hailed as a milestone. “This is a historic moment,” said WHO director-general Tedros ...
In 2006, a new study on antidepressants was making headlines with its promising results: Two-thirds of participants who tried various antidepressants recovered from their depression symptoms within ...
A forest fire may happen to a tree, but the reverse can also be true: A tree happens to a fire. A scientist would say that the Ponderosa pine, for instance, has adapted to fire: In other words, it has ...