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It is rare that a single scientific paper shapes how people think about a challenge as daunting as climate change. But one, known as “Wedges,” published 22 years ago by researchers at Princeton University, told an irresistible story.

The first time I spoke with Rebecca Saltzburg, she told me Tulsi Gabbard was a freethinker who took orders from no one.

The disgraced New York financier made a career out of connections with world leaders in politics, business titans and science’s most lauded brains.

UK academics whose research criticizes China say they have been targeted, and their universities subjected to "extremely heavy" pressure from Beijing, leading to calls for a reassessment of the sector’s reliance on tuition fee income from Chinese students.

Dame Jane Goodall, known for her ground-breaking studies involving chimpanzees, has died.

Fellows urged the academy to respond to the Tesla owner’s involvement in the Trump administration’s actions against research

Americium-241 costs one fifth per watt of power compared to plutonium-238.

A group of scientists located at a secluded research base in Antarctica is experiencing a situation akin to a "real-life horror movie" - as reports surface regarding incidents of physical and sexual assault among the team.

Scientists have toyed with the idea of nuclear rockets since the 1950s. Will they finally become a reality?

SpaceX launched the Tesla Roadster on the maiden flight of the spacecraft company’s huge Falcon Heavy rocket in 2018

The fastest spacecraft ever is preparing to make the closest approach to the sun on Tuesday to get a better understanding of how it works.

Someone moved the UK’s oldest satellite and there appears to be no record of exactly who, when or why.

The winners of the Swedish Central Bank’s Alfred Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences have been announced.

Scientific research on pigeon missiles and dead trout also win at awards for amusing studies with serious implications

Peter Kyle, who applied to university three times, said Tory government’s ‘war’ on higher education was over

Sir Paul Nurse puts forward for role never held by a woman.