Governments like to boast that "data-driven" policies are the best way to make fair, efficient decisions. They collect ...

University of Warwick astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high-mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light ...

Scientist Inna Birchenko began to cry as she described the smoldering protected forest in Thailand where she was collecting ...

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Making incisions and carefully taking samples, the scientists at a laboratory in Russia's far east looked like pathologists ...

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A surprise heat wave hit Central Asia in March, a new study published Friday showed, putting in danger crops and water supply ...

Flooding in rural southeastern Oregon from what authorities have described as "historic levels" of snowmelt and rainfall has ...

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Bonobos—our closest living relatives—create complex and meaningful combinations of calls resembling the word combinations of ...

A genomic study of hydrogen-producing bacteria has revealed entirely new gene clusters capable of producing large volumes of ...

A Michigan State University researcher saw X-rays coming from a black hole using the NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory telescope ...