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The universe seems stable, but an unlikely shift in the Higgs field, a quantum field that pervades all of space, could ...

Government layoffs threaten to make it easier for the Trump administration to ditch draft heat safety regulations ...

Peter Cummings is a forensic pathologist and neuropathologist who explores what happens in the brain at the threshold between life and death. His research focuses on how the human mind and brain adapt ...

The Haenyeo, an all-female group of divers on South Korea’s Jeju Island, spend much of their lives underwater without ...

Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific ...

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Neuroscientists can now make precise genetic tweaks to the neurons that are most affected by brain diseases such as Parkinson ...

Reducing the copies of one gene in the bubonic plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, made it less deadly but potentially more ...

British climbers recently reached the top of Mount Everest in record time. They inhaled xenon gas before the trip. But was ...

NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies has been at the forefront of Earth and planetary science from its location in ...