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Biologists have demonstrated for the first time that a controversial genetic engineering technology works, with caveats, in mammals.

The Brazilian mathematician Carolina Araujo, who calls herself “a bit of an anarchist,” is organizing meetings and building a support network to study and solve the problems women face in mathematics.

An analysis of lunar craters has found that we’ve been living in a relatively violent period in cosmic history.

A science fiction novelist and an internet commenter made breakthroughs on a longstanding problem about the number of ways you can arrange a set of items. What did they discover?

Subatomic particles called muons are thought to have streamed through the atmosphere and irradiated megafauna like the monster shark megalodon.

Emerging evidence suggests that the brain encodes abstract knowledge in the same way that it represents positions in space, which hints at a more universal theory of cognition.

Neural networks are famously incomprehensible, so Been Kim is developing a “translator for humans.”

Astronomers couldn’t find enough satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way. Now they have the opposite problem.

Jellyfish didn’t need novel genes to take an evolutionary leap in complexity.