Humankind faces unprecedented changes in climate patterns, sea-level, ocean acidity, ecosystems, and more. Learn more about the science behind these issues in the following FAQs.

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The mammalian cortex has two broad categories of cells: neurons and glia. We know that cortical neurons can be either excitatory or inhibitory, but within those divisions, there are many subtypes ...

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to take images of the manuscript in various wavelengths of light, from ultraviolet to infrared. MSI even reached through the period when it was used as a cover, which smudged out text, and brought the ...

Funding innovative and timely research through its Page/Johnson Legacy Scholar Grant program is a chief initiative of the Page Center. Every year, the center designates senior research fellows to ...

At first glance, the 16th-century register found in the Cambridge University Library might not seem the most remarkable of objects. Its brittle pages simply held handwritten records of property ...

Each participant in the UK Biobank studies completed a written informed consent form. The UK Biobank study was approved by the multicenter Research Ethics Committee, the National Information ...

Pune’s Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute is digitizing 28,000 rare manuscripts — some over 1,000 years old — to safeguard India’s ancient knowledge. Covering Vedic literature ...

“We are particularly concerned by the proposal to eliminate up to 75 percent of employees within EPA’s Office of Research and Development (ORD),” the letter, from Rep. Greg Landsman (D ...

Though she lost her battle, her final years would have been immeasurably worse without the invaluable advances in modern cancer care pioneered by federally funded medical research. President Trump ...