When UC Berkeley biochemist Jennifer Doudna first began studying how bacteria fight virus infections, she had no idea it ...

The International Space Station is an example of extraterritorial international collaboration at the frontiers of scientific ...

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The Boston Civic Symphony will present its annual Family Holiday Concert on December 14 at the Boston Latin School Auditorium ...

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Ignaz Semmelweis cut childbed deaths dramatically by insisting doctors wash their hands, and was mocked for it. His story ...

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IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Arnold & Mabel Beckman Foundation today announced University Lab Partners (ULP) as the latest recipient of a Beckman Orange County Community Support ...

Native American oral history and archaeological data alike suggest that farmers in parts of North America began abandoning major settlements such as Mesa Verde in Colorado and Cahokia in Illinois ...

Joshua Lederberg, Nobel laureate and president of Rockefeller University, is well known in biology circles. Not so his wife, ...

The little-known city of Chochkitam, located in northeast Guatemala’s dense rainforest near the border with Belize and Mexico, was last photographed by archaeologists some 100 years ago. In 2024, ...