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As the summer field season ramps up, agency researchers are grappling with uncertainty in funding, labor, and logistics.
Recent years have seen a 12 percent decline in new HIV infections. Cuts to federal funding could upend that progress.
An unusual collaboration between scientists and psychics could transform the treatment of auditory hallucinations.
The original report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.
The agency will encourage new clinical trials on Covid-19 vaccines before approving them for children and healthy adults.
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 ...
On the outskirts of the northern California town of Grass Valley, a massive concrete silo looms over the weeds and crumbling pavement. Nearby, unseen, a mine shaft drops 3,400 feet into the earth.
Did you know that sperm whales make sounds using “lips” located near their blowholes — and that those sounds are so loud they could burst the eardrums of a human diver at close range? Or that, near ...
Tamar Antin studies smoking. As an anthropologist who has published research in scientific journals for the last 20 years, she’s accustomed to editors polishing her manuscripts. But recently, she sent ...