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Vacationing in Florida? Want to bring your python? Tell the U.S. Fish and Wildlife… [Read more]

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology is reorganizing its eight laboratory divisions. Currently,… [Read more]

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Among the military brass giving testimony about global terrorism at a Senate hearing yesterday… [Read more]

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A protein that binds to the notorious drug may help explain how it causes birth defects [Read more]

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The 10th annual Albany Medical Center Prize—the U.S.’s biggest prize in biomedicine—will go to… [Read more]

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Parent-offspring conflict among birds; ocean versus land biodiversity; peace through vaccine diplomacy; and more.

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Take a bunch of fast-moving electrons, place them in orbit and then hit them with the shock waves from a solar storm. What do you get? Killer electrons. That’s the shocking recipe revealed by ESA’s Cluster mission.

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Computer programs have been able to predict which of three short films a person is thinking about, just by looking at their brain activity. The research provides further insight into how our memories are recorded.

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