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Federal data shows the NIH lost about 4,400 people — more than 20% of its workforce. Scientists say the departures harm the U.S.’ ability to respond to disease outbreaks, develop treatments for ...

Humans are a coastal species. More than one in ten people in the world live within three miles of the shore, and about 40 ...

Global coastal sea levels are on average 1 foot higher than previously assumed, a new report finds, raising alarms the world ...

A giant 300-kg freshwater stingray discovered in Cambodia’s Mekong River has become the largest freshwater fish ever recorded, highlighting the river’s biodiversity and urgent conservation concerns.

The ground at Yellowstone does not always move quietly, and sometimes it waits for years before suddenly coming back to life.

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Researchers found that a majority of studies on coastal sea levels underestimated how high water levels are, and hundreds of millions of people are closer to peril than previously thought.

Scientists at Nankai University, Tianjin, developed a high-energy, solid-state battery system that they claim has already ...

Using a more accurate coastal height baseline means that a 3-foot rise in seas could inundate up to 37% more land and threaten 77 million to 132 million more people, researchers said.

And now a University of Portsmouth scientist has claimed that he has evidence to suggest that, much like Neo and Truman, we might actually be living in a simulation. Melvin Vopson, who studies the ...

By Che Pan and Laurie Chen BEIJING, March 5 (Reuters) - Top Chinese semiconductor executives have called for a coordinated ...