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NASA announced two awards Thursday to establish scientific consortia – multi-institutional coalitions to conduct ground-based studies that help address the agency’s goals of maintaining a sustained ...

China hopes a giant laboratory 2,300 feet underground is key to beating the US at discovering the secrets of the universe’s most mysterious particles–neutrinos. Slated for completion next year ...

Researchers following the case say it highlights the problems with an open-science tenet: preregistration, the practice of specifying, in writing, a study’s details, including the hypothesis and ...

Non-fiction publishing is failing its readers. It is pumping out books with supposedly game-changing ideas, without bothering to ensure basic accuracy. These tomes have the appearance of academic ...

But what does that mean? Francis Bacon, the science philosopher, said that science relies on thematic organization and a logical narrative flow, referring to experimentation without direction as “mere ...

The big bang theory of the universe starts with a single point which rapidly expanded and slowly evolved into the cosmos we see today. Some 13.8 billion years ago, the universe was a dense, ...

What this year’s Nobels can teach us about science and humanity. By Alan Burdick and Katrina Miller We are journalists on The Times’s Science desk. Technology observers have grown increasingly ...

TOWN OF SALINA, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — It’s a science teacher’s dream, the northern lights rolling right through their backyard. Trump transition team gets to work ‘Selected to be a slave ...