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Applications will be open February 1, 2025 through April 1, 2025. Selected applicants will be required to attend an in-person group interview on Saturday, April 19, 2025. The California Academy of ...

For almost a century, Science News journalists have covered advances in science, medicine and technology for the general public, including the 1925 Scopes “monkey” trial, the advent of the ...

Gene editing and plant domestication are essential to protect food supplies in a worsening climate, according to an international team of researchers, led by The University of Western Australia. In ...

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Nonetheless, even as the US government moves in the wrong direction, trends in science, economics and increasingly local politics indicate that the pendulum would swing back in due course. After all, ...

President Trump once again oversees billions of dollars of funding for research into pandemics, HIV, cancer, and other areas fundamental to health and science. And once again, his administration ...

"We have previously had two well-established types of magnetism," study author Oliver Amin, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Nottingham in the U.K., told Live Science ...

Health science majors study health and disease in the human body. Students in this major are prepared to work in a variety of health-related careers and pursue graduate-level education.

A political science major is a social science degree path that focuses on government in theory and practice. Majors will explore topics related to political theory, international relations ...