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Female academics face additional hurdles during their careers. Women are underrepresented in academia, especially in STEMM fields, at top institutions, and in senior positions. This study analyzes ...

An extinction-level event can be thought of as a sudden, external calamity wiping out a given species. For the dinosaurs, it was the Chicxulub impactor. For NASA’s science program, it very well may be ...

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A first-of-its-kind shot that promises to reverse aging was just injected into a human body. It's a pivotal moment for longevity science, the first opportunity for researchers to prove that epigenetic ...

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