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A funding pause at the University of Michigan illustrates the uncertainty around new language in NIH grant awards.
The Biden administration had mandated that coal- and gas-fired power plants drastically reduce emissions by the 2030s.
Researchers have long advocated for a more systematic approach to environmental health, but funding may not hold.
A research team projects that changes to public health insurance coverage may lead to upwards of 51,000 deaths a year.
That cause — a hereditary genetic mutation known as E280A — is at the heart of science journalist Jennie Erin Smith’s deeply researched book, “Valley of Forgetting: Alzheimer’s Families and the Search ...
In 1676, Dutch fabric merchant Antonie van Leeuwenhoek held a magnifying glass to a sample of rainwater and saw a slew of tiny creatures squirming around. The first to observe such microscopic beings, ...