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Rice University has launched an institute to accelerate discoveries in brain science and health. Why it matters: As rates of ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

Over the course of just three days recently, five scientists affiliated with the University of California won Nobel prizes for discoveries that can help us more effectively treat conditions such ...

A Century Later' revisits the pages of Popular Science to see how yesterday’s bold predictions and groundbreaking discoveries have aged. A hundred years ...

Traditionally, science has been the counterargument for the existence of a divine creator. However, French mathematicians Olivier Bonnassies and Michel-Yves Bollore now say that science ‘has become ...