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For the second year in a row, US President Donald Trump has proposed significant cuts to the budgets of major US science ...

The Department of Health and Human Services and the Environmental Protection Agency announced a joint effort to track ...

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A single subatomic particle from deep space had the same energy as a baseball pitch, and scientists still don’t know how it ...

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The U.S. space agency’s Skyfall project calls for sending robotic helicopters to Mars on a nuclear-powered spacecraft before ...