According to a report from Axios, the Trump administration has canceled funding and contracts to Springer Nature, including payments for subscriptions to the company’s publications, which include the ...

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Neil Shubin, a University of Chicago researcher known for co-discovering a ′missing link’ fossil fish, will lead the National ...

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Breakthroughs from two rival experiments, Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X and the Joint European Torus, suggest the elusive dream of controlled nuclear fusion may be within reach ...

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