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A coalition of autism scientists has formed to counter RFK, Jr.’s misrepresentations of science and of autism spectrum ...

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As U.S. childhood vaccination rates sway on a “knife’s edge,” new 25-year projections reveal how slight changes in national ...

Inuit languages really do have many words for snow, linguists found—and other languages have conceptual specialties, too, ...

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Researchers have shown that abstract mathematical functions from the frontiers of theoretical physics have a real-world use ...

Astronomical amounts of energy could be extracted from black holes—to build a gigantic bomb, for example. Experts have now ...

AI chatbot companions may not be real, but the feelings users form for them are. Some scientists worry about long-term ...

NASA’s nearly complete yet canceled lunar rover VIPER isn’t going to get carried to the moon by a private space exploration ...