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How do scientists react to major breaking science news? For astrophysicists after the big gravitational waves announcement, it was meeting for two weeks in Santa Barbara, California.

Gene drives promise to spread a trait across an entire population. But evolutionary forces are going to alter even the best-engineered plans.

City blocks help illustrate why walking randomly tends to take you away from your starting point.

Just months after their discovery, gravitational waves coming from the mergers of black holes are shaking up astrophysics.

The astrophysicist Tracy Slatyer is searching for faint wisps of dark matter annihilating in the early universe — and perhaps in hiding places closer to home.

The infamous case of Typhoid Mary underscores the importance of tolerance in understanding disease.

Scientists have developed new ways to forecast who will bounce back from disease by studying not just the way the immune system fights infections, but how the body repairs itself.

An RNA molecule that can make copies of a variety of RNAs adds new support to the RNA-world theory.

Irrationality may be a consequence of the brain’s ravenous energy needs.