Scientists have long struggled to determine the size of the megalodon because no complete fossil of the extinct animal has been found. Past studies have estimated the megalodon’s length and ...

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Previously, she was executive editor of Chemical & Engineering News. The Trump administration’s attacks on science and funding at the National Institutes of Health will set research and training ...

There's an arms race in medicine—scientists design drugs to treat lethal bacterial infections, but bacteria can evolve defenses to those drugs, sending the researchers back to square one.

NEW YORK — Uma Reddy was sitting at her kitchen table Monday night, wrapping up patient notes, when the notice finally came: The $16.6 million grant she had used to build a maternal health ...

Most iguanas live in the Americas. But scientists have found evidence some floated to Fiji, likely snacking on their raft ...

NOAA’s remit is wide, but one of its most critical roles is to observe the oceans. Multiple scientists told CNN the layoffs are taking expert eyes off the oceans at the worst possible time ...

Curriculum developers have made more of an effort in recent years to broaden their depictions of scientists, hoping to more accurately represent the scientific workforce. But does simply seeing a ...

Scientists recently determined why people always seem to have room for something sweet after eating a meal. It's because the "dessert stomach" is a real thing in a person's brain. "We wanted to ...

Google's new artificial intelligence (AI) tool has cracked a problem that took scientists a decade to solve in just two days. José Penadés and his colleagues at Imperial College London spent 10 ...

A new macro analysis of surveys over the past 15 years shows where scientists and industry experts stand on the question and how their predictions have changed over time, especially after the ...