With efforts towards gender equality stalling, voting in a first female head of the UN would provide powerful representation for half the world’s population — and be good for all of it.

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“Her group’s discoveries are a continuing sequence of stepping stones that go further and deeper into new science,” says fellow UCLA professor Mark Morris. One of the world’s leading experts in ...

For decades, scientists assumed that neural stem cells (NSCs) only occur in the brain and spinal cord. A new international ...

After a storied scientific career that began with the discovery of how hormones control genes, Keith Yamamoto, PhD, has ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is advancing rapidly, with its applications spreading across industries such as healthcare, ...

A roughly 4,800-year-old royal Mesopotamian cemetery in eastern Turkey appears to complicate existing theories about how some ...

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Since World War II, U.S. research funding has led to discoveries that fueled economic gains. Now cutbacks are seen as putting ...