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David Jewitt at the University of California, Los Angeles, and his colleagues studied images from ground-based and ...

Preprint servers are seeing a rise in submissions seemingly produced by paper mills or with help from AI tools.

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As federal support vanishes for research addressing the root causes of health disparities in the United States, we are left ...

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US President Donald Trump has used a series of executive orders to reshape US science. Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty. US ...

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New approach finds ‘parent-of-origin’ effects in more than a dozen genes — without the need for parental data.