The Crucial Third is the second place winner of the Synapse Storytelling Contest's science writing category. Comments from category judge...

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Tomas Tesfasilassie was visiting relatives in the small African nation of Eritrea in 2014 when his uncle had a sudden...

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The way we communicate academic science today has remained largely unchanged from when the peer-reviewed publishing system was initially developed...

On Oct. 15, the California legislature passed SB 201, a bill that extends the right to unionize to a subsection...

Dr. Judith Campisi envisions a future where treatments would destroy cells that drive aging, thus lengthening our healthspan. Campisi delivered...