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The United States federal government is channeling billions of dollars into keeping existing nuclear plants running, restarting shuttered reactors, and clearing the regulatory path for advanced ...

Scripps Research scientists have re-engineered fentanyl’s core structure to retain potent analgesia while limiting respiratory depression in preclinical tests – a strategy that could inform ...

In chemistry, molecules with a "flat" geometry are often stable enough to support a wide range of reactions. But in the quantum world, that's not technically true.

A research team at King's College London has isolated a new form of aluminum—a highly abundant metal, that could provide a ...

Bring up aliens and a lot of people will scoff. But not everyone is laughing. Around the turn of the century, 3.8 million ...