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The number of autism diagnoses has risen steadily in recent years and currently stands at one in 45 American children diagnosed each year. There’s been…

If consciousness is what makes us human, memory – it could be argued – is what defines us as individuals. Each of us carries within our brains a unique…

Usually, efforts to find a new treatment or cure for a disease go something like this: scientists spend years figuring out something about the basic…

President Trump’s early executive actions and rhetoric about climate change and vaccines have a lot of American scientists on edge right now – worried…

We wouldn’t have guessed it, but it’s awfully hard to get a certain little blue Caribbean fish to breed. In fact, it took an expert at the New England…

Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant is scheduled to close in 2019, and there are many who would like to see it shut down sooner. But that leaves a significant gap…

Surveys consistently show that a majority of Americans think climate change is happening, but that it won’t affect them. Scientists say otherwise.…

Nearly 60 years ago, the Russians were the first to put a satellite into space. They were the ones to beat in the space race. But the collapse of the…

There’s more evidence that playing football can lead to permanent brain damage. But the problem likely isn’t as prevalent as many media accounts have…

Most of the time, the headlines are full of bad news. That’s especially true of environmental headlines. But Susan Solomon of MIT says we have a track…