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To celebrate Scientific American ’s 180th anniversary, we’re publishing a jigsaw every weekday to show off some of our most ...

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Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Canceled grants and slashed budgets are disproportionately affecting junior health researchers, dealing a major blow to the ...

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