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GREAT BARRINGTON — A scientist who once bucked pandemic policy told a Senate panel on Wednesday that the National Institutes of Health is the “crown jewel” of biomedical research and medical ...

Tossed the softest of softball questions, William Katzman, vice president for exhibits at the Great Lakes Science Center, can’t resist the joke. Why is the soon-to-open traveling exhibition “Super ...

A paleontologist was trying to locate the site of a famous 1908 discovery when a rancher in Wyoming shared an important clue.

The Great Lakes owe their existence to a hotspot that was active hundreds of millions of years ago, according to new research. This Cape Verde hotspot currently sits beneath the island nation in the ...

He’s not fin-ished. Breton, the nearly 1,500-pound great white shark that went viral for etching a “self-portrait” in the Atlantic Ocean, has again been spotted off Florida shores. The 13-footer, who ...

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ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. – The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, or DEVCOM, Army Research Laboratory recently gave a heartfelt sendoff to its chief scientist and senior research ...

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A real shark scientist reacts to the wildest “close call” moments with great whites ever caught on camera. From cage dives gone wrong to surprise breaches next to boats, he explains what’s really ...