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The largest experiment ever to probe these mysterious particles could point the way to new physics

The wild pet trade may surpass habitat loss as a factor in the growing silence of the natural world

The placenta does a whole lot more than just ferry oxygen and nutrients to the fetus and take away wastes and carbon dioxide

More firearms do not keep people safe, hard numbers show. Why do so many Americans believe the opposite?

It has nothing to do with science itself

Scientists are trying new ways to win over a skeptical public

Seeing a chance to lead, China is deploying clean energy, quantum satellites and genomics

Before anesthesia, surgeons battled patient agony during each procedure. But another foe awaited them next: postoperative infection

A historic exploration of the ringed planet, unprecedented in magnitude and spectacle, comes to an end