Scientists around the world are making new discoveries and breakthroughs in understanding illness every day. But turning these discoveries into improvements in human health is a difficult process.

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Oct. 12, 2026 Europe's Sentinel-3C satellite has returned breathtaking images of Earth just two weeks after launch, revealing the snowy Alps, frozen Arctic islands, and brilliant turquoise Caribbean ...

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Bones from Iraqi cave hint at violence and compassion in Neanderthals The bones of a Neanderthal from a cave in Iraq's Kurdistan region are offering evidence of both violence and compassion in the ...

The Kronshtadskiy subglacial lake near East Antarctica's Amery Ice Shelf was hidden beneath Antarctica's ice, but its drainage left a mark visible from space as a broad depression that deepened by ...

Laura Sanders reports on neuroscience for Science News. She wrote Growth Curve, a blog about the science of raising kids, from 2013 to 2019 and continues to write about child development and parenting ...

ONLINE COVER Benefits and Burdens of a Bottleneck. Successful hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) requires immunosuppression to prevent graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), but the choice of regimen ...

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Quantum systems can occupy superpositions, quantum states that combine different possibilities. For instance, a microwave field can be prepared in a superposition of an empty state and a state that ...

Computer science is the study and development of the protocols required for automated processing and manipulation of data. This includes, for example, creating algorithms for efficiently searching ...