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Adverse experiences can change future generations through epigenetic pathways

A new generation of scientists are challenging the biased, hierarchical status quo

But society is not prepared for the growing crisis of long COVID

Gaslighting isn’t just between people in a relationship—it involves social power, too

The researcher who led the Turnaway Study explains how being denied an abortion had lasting negative effects on those who were forced to carry their pregnancies to term and on their children

Cloth from Viking and medieval archaeological sites shows that women literally made the money in the North Atlantic

Two expeditions to the Thwaites Ice Shelf have revealed that it could splinter apart in less than a decade, hastening sea-level rise worldwide

New research hints at the biophysical underpinnings of their ability to use Earth’s magnetic field lines to find their way to their breeding and wintering grounds

Scientists are uncovering more about an eerie phenomenon that has bewildered seafarers for centuries

The first image of the behemoth at the center of our galaxy opens new avenues for understanding the nature of black holes

In some members, a longing for “simpler” times is giving rise to deadly activities

Oil and gas representatives influence the standards for courses and textbooks, from kindergarten to 12th grade

A debate over conflicting measurements of key cosmological properties is set to shape the next decade of astronomy and astrophysics

The pioneering probes are still running after nearly 45 years in space, but they will soon lose some of their instruments

Heat waves broke temperature records around the world this past summer, but it will still be one of the coolest summers of the next few decades

The James Webb Space Telescope’s first images of the distant universe shocked astronomers. Is the discovery of unimaginably distant galaxies a mirage or a revolution?