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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Benjamin Franklin's kite experiment in 1752 was a pivotal scientific event, which demonstrated the connection between lightning ...

A lab at the University of Illinois at Chicago in March. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) Scott Atlas’s July 2 online op-ed “Abolish the NIH” made valid points about bureaucracy, indirect costs and the need ...

As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, a special collection in Science highlights the roots and evolution of the nation’s science and research enterprise. Across three Policy Forums, ...