At first, James Watson terrified me. It was 1991 and my first day as the new science writer at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

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Engelmann says that from the beginning of the Western intellectual tradition, people thought that only humans are rational.

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An academic has used ten of Iris Murdoch’s novels and some newly discovered poems to illuminate scientific concepts.

The technology that has helped propel the simulation theory may be new, but the questions it explores are ancient.

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Scientists at The Wistar Institute have solved a longstanding puzzle in ovarian cancer treatment: why anti-estrogen therapy often fails even when tumors express the hormone receptor that should make ...

Down syndrome is caused by an error in cell division during development. Individuals receive three copies of chromosome 21 instead of the typical two copies, resulting in duplicates of the genes ...

Your brain predicts life before it happens. Learn how biology, stress, and meaning shape your expectations—and how to retrain ...

Water isn't just delivered to planets by comets and asteroids — it can also be forged as worlds form, a new study finds.