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Could “fatty” or “starchy” one day become accepted as the sixth basic taste alongside the likes of sweet and salty? In recent years, scientists have proposed a few contenders for a sixth taste that ...

This story was adapted from a version published by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Read the original here. The Department of Energy (DOE) has renewed funding for the Quantum Systems Accelerator ...

UC San Diego says it’s struggling to deal with a large and growing number of freshmen whose math skills are below middle-school level, leaving many unprepared to thrive at an institution famed for its ...

Blood sample drawn from sickle cell disease patient Tristen Tate, Friday, March 8, 2024, at Cook Children's Hematology and Oncology in Fort Worth. Shafkat Anowar / Staff Photographer A Dallas ...

Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government. “They have cancelled wholesale a ...

The radical dismantling of government-funded basic research will accelerate the deterioration of universities’ beneficent implementation of the scientific method — the greatest accomplishment of ...

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