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Agency officials said Monday that NOAA would continue to maintain the Joint Polar Satellite System, crucial weather satellites, after a previous memo suggested maintenance would be deferred

New data released by the EPA show that nearly half of people in the U.S. have drinking water contaminated by toxic "forever chemicals," or PFAS

D-Wave's fresh claim that it has achieved "quantum advantage" has sparked criticism of the company—and of the scientific process itself

Mouse and human studies suggest a connection between a gut microbe and the appetite-regulating hormone GLP-1

A first-of-its-kind analysis by Nature reveals which institutions are retraction hotspots.

The nonaddictive painkiller suzetrigine (Journavx) is as effective for acute pain as a common opioid treatment

Despite a recent request from Trump, NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were already scheduled to return to Earth on a Crew Dragon capsule this spring

AI-generated papers are infiltrating Google Scholar, raising concerns over academic integrity and the spread of misleading research in the scientific community.

President Biden issued an executive order to permit data centers on federal lands in a move aimed at bolstering clean energy and protecting national security during a boom in artificial intelligence

A new study found that flood deaths can rise by 25 percent three months after a disaster

Richard Alley, Lawrence Edwards and David Tilman were among the two dozen honorees who received the National Medal of Science or the National Medal of Technology and Innovation last week

The latest research is an antidote to toxic quackery and honest confusion about health

A small number of fast-moving wildfires cause almost all the property damage by forcing firefighters to focus on saving lives

Scientists in India have reported a rare case of infection in a woman who consumed unpasteurized dairy products before falling sick. Lactococcus lactis

Researchers from the Scottish Association for Marine Science and colleagues have discovered that the polymetallic nodule-covered abyssal seafloor in the Pacific Ocean produces the so-called 'dark oxygen.'

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