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The 2020 census is going digital. We recently brought you a story of how this technological innovation could lead to undercounting Native Americans who…

“Leaves are green to begin with because they make chlorophyll, and what chlorophyll does is it turns CO2 into the oxygen that we love and the sugar that…

A proposed rule change at the EPA is back in the news almost a year and a half after it was first proposed – and met with strong pushback from the science…

The Korean peninsula is at the center of global geopolitics right now. It might also be ground zero for the global decline of amphibians. And, strangely,…

At four thirty in the afternoon – pitch dark and raining – Sue Natali is waiting for her son, Clancy, to get home from school. But she’s not meeting a…

The Space Race inspired a generation of students interested in science. Today, the issues facing aspiring scientists are no less momentous. For one,…

Two heads are better than one. Many scientific breakthroughs come when scientists from different fields or different sectors team up to tackle a single…

The suicide of computer prodigy and internet activist Aaron Swartz on January 11th has prompted a groundswell of support for the open access movement -…

While it may not be the issue that decides elections, funding for scientific research is a fundamentally political beast. Take, for example, President…

We all know camouflage when we see it, or when we don’t, as the case may be. But what does that actually mean?“Qualitatively, it’s pretty easy for people…