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Elay Shech, Auburn University Biotech company Colossal Biosciences made headlines in April 2025 after claiming it had “successfully restored...

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Kevin Elliott, Michigan State University Scientists these days face a conundrum. As Americans are buffeted by accounts of fake news, alternative facts and deceptive social...

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Mid-Atlantic mushroom foragers collect 160 species for food, medicine, art and science

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Climate finance is meant to help low-income countries adapt to climate change and recover from disasters like Hurricane Melissa. Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty Images

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If it looks like a dire wolf, is it a dire...

Rather than being free of values, good science is transparent about...

EXPLORING NATURE

Sea level doesn’t rise at the same rate everywhere – we...

Mid-Atlantic mushroom foragers collect 160 species for food, medicine, art and science

How climate finance to help poor countries became a global shell...

How pecans went from ignored trees to a holiday staple –...

When fake data is a good thing – how synthetic data...

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