On opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean, Central Europe and North Carolina have both been drenched by torrential rains ...

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Rather than building an obsolescent, obscenely-over-budget jumbo rocket, NASA should turn to building truly innovative space ...

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The difficulties of the Svalbard seed repository illustrate why we need to prevent climate disaster rather than plan for it ...

Growing awareness of how addiction and trauma are intertwined has birthed a new generation of treatment strategies.

These sickle cell researchers and advocates are driving change from labs to global stages, transforming lives in the process.

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Because empathy can allow people to connect across political, racial and economic divides, it lays a foundation for acts of ...

In the meantime current gene therapies remain expensive and challenging to scale up because each patient’s batch of cells has ...

Increased funding and new public health policies for sickle cell research are needed to ease the burden on low-income nations ...

This month’s issue covers the reasons it’s so hard to go back to the moon, the science of empathy and new advances in ...