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For more than three decades, the nonprofit United Network for Organ Sharing has run America’s organ transplant…

In what will undoubtedly be the largest genomic sequencing effort of all time, an international consortium of…

The U.S. National Park Service can add “top-notch, internationally-accredited views of the Milky Way” to its long…

Guided by the work of Rosalind Franklin, James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the the twisted-ladder structure…

This year, the Food and Drug Administration is joining stoners the world over in celebrating 4/20.

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Ever since researchers first discovered that bacterial immune systems could be hijacked to selectively change DNA in…

It’s been a rough start to wildfire season on the Southern Plains. Oklahoma’s third megafire in three years is…

In the future, tattoos may no longer be mere decorative statements for the body, but useful biomedical devices that…

Back-to-back bleaching events in 2016 and 2017 killed one in every two corals on the Great Barrier Reef. Now,…

Science textbooks will tell you that the human body has just a couple hundred types of cells. But efforts to catalog…

Scientists have made a truly bizarre discovery on an expanse of cooled lava 150 miles west of Costa Rica and nearly…

When you mail off a sample of your spit to find out about your ancestry, companies like 23andMe compare your DNA to…

Hurricane Irma may be a fading memory for those who didn’t experience its heavy rains or ferocious winds. But in the…

The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) is deferring a decision on whether to stay in Hawaii or move to a back-up location…

Recent advancements in science and medicine have put cures within reach for diseases that have long plagued…

Modern technology wouldn’t work without trace amounts of bizarrely-named metals that occupy obscure positions on the…