These tails vary widely by anatomy and purpose—from the grippy tails of opossums to the balancing tails of kangaroos to the ...

Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants ...

The study of dinosaurs has been through a revolution in recent decades. The story began half a century ago, when Robert ...

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DOE's Dr. Dario Gil explains how the Genesis Mission will use AI supercomputing to transform U.S. science, energy, and engineering.

How could this be? This counterintuitive finding is a consequence of what’s called Simpson’s paradox, a phenomenon that is now widely known in statistics. In 1899 mathematician Karl Pearson first ...

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Science Academies Urge Action by G20 Nations on Clean Energy, Universal and Holistic Health, and Connections Between Science and Culture WASHINGTON – A joint communique was issued by many science ...

The natural world rarely behaves the way we expect. Physics bends intuition. Biology ignores neat categories. Space refuses to be reasonable. Some facts sound like they were invented for a science ...

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The American Medical Association is being taken to task for continuing to support puberty blockers for kids — despite recently coming out against trans surgeries for children. Alabama Attorney General ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. On paper, little appears to have changed for UMass Chan Medical ...