At first glance, some scientific research can seem, well, impractical. When physicists began exploring the strange, subatomic ...

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The expression "6-7" spread like wildfire last year, making its way outside the realm of usual adolescent slang and into the ...

Scientists set out to understand all the ways the animals use their eight appendages. It wasn’t easy. By Kate Golembiewski The eight arms of an octopus are right there in its name. But these ...

After years of inaction, Iowa lawmakers reached an agreement on a bill limiting the use of eminent domain for carbon capture pipelines. But, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds announced June 11 that she had ...

Section 1. Policy and Purpose. Over the last 5 years, confidence that scientists act in the best interests of the public has fallen significantly. A majority of researchers in science, technology, ...

Riverhead Town will end its effort to seize a blighted building on East Main Street from the Long Island Science Center, clearing the way for the nonprofit to build a new museum on the town square.

The Long Island Science Center presented revised plans for its museum on the town square Thursday, in a bid to convince the Riverhead Town Board not to take its property using eminent domain. The ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...

In an effort to improve American diets, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Thursday released a new definition of what it means for a food to qualify as “healthy.” Products like fruit-flavored ...

A new rule from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will update what it means for food to be labeled “healthy” for the first time in 30 years, a move that aligns with current nutrition science and ...