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Year after year, whole sections, topics, and names are altered if not altogether taken out of the school textbooks that belong to the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT). This has occurred so steadily over the last few years that news about history being erased from the school…

A retraction intends to bring to an end the acrimonious debate about the validity of the 15-year old findings that threatened to upend what we thought we know about life.

Over billions of years, the drive to survive, reproduce, and outcompete rivals has pushed plants and animals to incredible extremes. From strange to unbelievable, every wild behavior has deep biological roots.With insights from researchers who dared to look closer, this article unpacks the science behind some of the craziest and…

Born out of breakthrough research at the City University of Hong Kong, i2Cool is redefining the future of sustainable cooling. Founded by leading professors and young scientists from the School of Energy and Environment, the company transforms cutting-edge science—featured in top journals like Science—into real-world solutions. Its core technology, based on…

NASA helped fund the original work

Unprecedented marine heatwaves have sparked fears but an Australian expert warns it's too early to tell whether climate change has reached its tipping point.

A controversial 2010 study that suggested bacteria could grow using arsenic instead of phosphorus has been retracted by the research journal Science.

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Scientists say they have very strong evidence that the adult human brain is capable of making new neurons, a point of ongoing controversy in neuroscience.

While figures like Steve Bannon have exploited the issue, scientists have done themselves no favours by shutting down legitimate inquiry, says award-winning science writer Jane Qiu