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The White House has nominated Erica Schwartz to replace NIH director Jay Bhattacharya as CDC chief. Bhattacharya has been ...

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The HHS secretary defended proposed budget cuts to science, his vaccine moves and health care costs on Capitol Hill on ...

A new map of the cosmos, including more than 47 million galaxies and other cosmic objects, represents one of the most ...

Steve Brusatte, author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs and The Story of Birds, recommends 10 dinosaur books to dig into ...

Biologists are racing to save America’s freshwater mussels—the water-filtering keystone species that once filled the ...

If the U.S. is ever to set up a permanent outpost on the moon, it will need nuclear power. The White House just released a ...

By making people feel as if they inhabit a younger version of their own face, researchers can bring childhood memories into ...

Detailed imaging of a 250-million-year-old fossil has revealed the first proof that the ancestors of mammals laid eggs. The ...

When their queen dies, naked mole rat females usually wage bloody battles of succession. But peace may be possible, a new ...