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IN his Rutherford Memorial Lecture 1 Sir Charles Darwin writes: “The first estimate of Avogadro's number is due to Maxwell himself”, and expresses his astonishment that Maxwell “should have ...

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Feb. 4, 2025 — A daily intake of one gram of omega-3s can slow down biological aging by up to four months, according to an analysis of clinical data from the international DO-HEALTH study. For ...

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Feb. 4, 2025 — New assessment warns area the size of the USA will become too hot during extreme heat events for even healthy young humans to maintain a safe body temperature if we hit 2 degrees ...

We sent emails to astrobiologists (scientists who study extraterrestrial life), as well as to scientists in other areas, including biologists and physicists. In total, 521 astrobiologists ...

CLIMATEWIRE | More than 50,000 scientists and their supporters have signed an open letter asking Congress to safeguard federal research and scientific jobs ahead of the incoming Trump administration.

In a year that will see many AI achievements and battles, let’s not forget that not all AI research makes the front pages.

Aidan Toner-Rodgers is a Ph.D. student of economics at MIT and has a working paper out on what happened to scientific discovery (and the jobs of scientists) when an R&D lab at a U.S. firm ...

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In a new peer reviewed analysis, scientists quantify amino acids before and after our “last universal common ancestor.” The last universal common ancestor is the single life form that branched ...