The NIH faces cuts of 35 percent, requested by billionaire Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

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Scientists have revealed how a parasite that affects millions of people every year evades our immune defenses.

Twenty-three Northbrook Junior High Independent Science Research students recently brought home 22 gold awards and one silver ...

Microbial ecosystems—for example, in seawater, the soil or in the human gut—are astonishingly diverse, but researchers often ...

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