On 2 July, a science initiative was born in a lecture hall in London. The Metascience Alliance is a coalition of more than 25 ...

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The Broad Institute — a biomedical research center affiliated with Harvard and MIT — laid off 75 employees and slashed ...

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EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin claims to prioritize combatting long-lasting chemicals called PFAS. Despite this, the agency has ...

A dramatic cosmic event, a rare dwarf nova that suddenly brightened by a factor of 2,500, has been discovered with the help ...

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NASA’s car-sized Perseverance rover has been roaming the surface of Mars for four years, drilling into the alien soil to collect dirt it places in tubes and leaves on the ground.

Chemours told ProPublica that it invested more than $400 million to remediate and reduce PFAS emissions. It also noted that ...