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In a new paper, digital activist Audrey Tang and others emphasize the need for context and community over clicks.

Having established power over Republican politics in the US, the industrialist is now intervening in European politics—and is himself becoming a leader of the international far right.

MIT students, supported by the MIT Energy Initiative, visited the Netherlands to see how the country is investing in and implementing low-carbon technologies — including hydrogen energy production, an on-site experimental energy grid, and a local district energy heating project.

astronomers used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to investigate the chemical composition of the planet-forming disk around ISO-ChaI 147, a red dwarf star weighing just one-tenth as much as our Sun.

The ascent of Geert Wilders has vexed parties struggling with how to work with a far-right leader too popular to shun. It's a puzzle bigger than the Netherlands.

A systematic approach to cardiovascular disease screening in adults with type 2 diabetes, COPD, or both led to more than doubling the rate of new CVD cases found compared with usual care.

The proliferation of tools like ChatGPT have made many people in the workforce scared for their livelihoods. Here's what historians think could happen.

It's the single sunniest area in the world.

For approximately 3,000 years, generations of green sea turtles have returned to the same seagrass meadows to eat.

Climate activists and some lawmakers want California's largest pension funds, CalPERS and CalSTRS, to shed about $15 billion of fossil fuel holdings.

Tiny pieces of plastic have been found littered throughout human bodies, trapped in our lungs and laced through our blood, but the long-term health effects of this exposure remain unclear.Every day humans ingest, inhale or otherwise come in contact with microplastics, plastic pollution less than fiv...

Astrophysicist who researched galactic structure and star formation.

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The science of twisting Oreos appears to be beyond human comprehension.

In organic solar cells, carbon-based polymers convert light into charges that are passed to an acceptor. This type of material has great potential, but to unlock this, a better understanding is needed of the way in which charges are produced and transported along the polymers.

In many ways, Madagascar is a biologist's dream, a real-life experiment in how isolation on an island can spark evolution. About 90% of the plants and animals there are found nowhere else on Earth. But these plants and animals are in major trouble, thanks to habitat loss, over-hunting, and climate change. Of the 219 known mammal species on the island, including 109 species of lemurs, more than 120 are endangered. A…

Biotechnologist Pascale Daran-Lapujade and her group at Delft University of Technology managed to build human muscle genes in the DNA of baker's yeast. This is the first time researchers have successfully placed such a vital human feature into a yeast cell. Their research was published in Cell Reports.

Breathing difficulties, chest pain, tiredness, loss of taste and/or smell among the symptoms most likely to hang on.

Researchers estimated the prevalence of long covid using survey data from the Netherlands in the early stages of the pandemic

Researchers at Yale University say they have been able to restore blood circulation and other cellular functions in pigs a full hour after the animals' deaths, suggesting that cells don't die as quickly as scientists had assumed.