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Charging forward at top speed, a garden snail slimes up 1 millimeter of pavement per second. By this logic, Beckman Institute ...

Four researchers have sued six of the world’s biggest publishers: Elsevier, John Wiley & Sons, Sage Publications, Springer Nature ... scientific sleuth, launched the 450 Movement, a call for ...

A study, published Thursday in the journal Science, found that 22% of butterflies in the United States disappeared between ...

D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) today announced a quantum advance published in the journal Science, confirming that its ...