Here are seven reactions from pro-life and pro-choice advocates to the death of the father of the abortion pill, tienne- mile ...

Austin Peay State University physics graduate Amaya Caudel has been selected for a prestigious summer internship at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, marking another milestone in her ...

Modern science originated from an attempt to weed out such subjective lapses—what that great 17th century theorist of the scientific method, Francis Bacon, dubbed the “idols of the mind.” ...

In a quiet lab in Bayreuth, Germany, a team of researchers has achieved what has long eluded geneticists: modifying the ...

It is used to predict the outcome of a series of events, each of which has its own probability. Here it is outlined in terms of neutrons, needles, roulette wheels and furniture factories ...

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This may be due to differences in their self-organization behavior. Without any statistical measure one cannot conclude about whether there are differences or not. By hypothesis test it is found ...

Reducing the copies of one gene in the bubonic plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, made it less deadly but potentially more ...

Trees get most of the love, but diatoms, a group of photosynthetic microalgae, produce 20% of Earth's oxygen and are the ...

When a water-based polymer solution dries, the liquid surface splits in uneven, unpredictable ways—a phenomenon called ...

The scrolls in question, stored in a library in a Roman villa that is thought to have belonged to the father-in-law of Julius ...

Copper has many uses—in electrical wires, plumbing and even coins. With its abundance and relatively low price tag, copper ...