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We asked 100 scientists about unsolved problems in their fields. They sent back provocations — on the origins of life, the ...

On Tuesday, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released a report entitled “Science: A New Golden Age,” in which it lays out how it has viewed science, found it lacking, and ...

When we launched STAT more than a decade ago, our mission statement promised that we would deliver “trusted, tough-minded journalism.” Little did we know that trust would be at the core of everything ...

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Soviet scientists in the 1930s knew what could happen if they bucked the party line: denunciation, firing and banishment from the scientific establishment, even imprisonment and death. Political ...