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This article is part of “Innovations In: Type 1 Diabetes,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Vertex.

Edward Damiano carved his life into precise 90-minute intervals. In 2000 his then…

In his laboratory at the University of Poitiers in France, Abderrazak El Albani contemplates the rock glittering in his hands. To the untrained eye, the specimen resembles a piece of golden tortellini embedded in a small slab of black shale. To…

Inflammation has two faces. It can be short-lived like the swelling after a twisted ankle or a two-day fever when you get a mild flu, both part of the healing process. Or it can be a longer-lasting and more damaging affliction—chronic,…

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The U.S. Won’t Win the New Space Race by Defunding NASA

By The Editors

In the early 1400s, nearly a century before Columbus’s fateful…

To improve the quality of life of people with cancer, oncologists have regularly recommended exercise. Staying fit can make patients feel and function better. But exercise itself was never considered a formal treatment for the disease.

“The…

This article is part of “Innovations In: Type 1 Diabetes,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Vertex.

In 2024 Stephen Rich and his colleagues published a study in which they assessed the…

Being Wrong Is a Scientific Superpower

By David M. Ewalt

One of the things I love most about science is that…

The hour, minute and second hands of this clock are all the same length and move smoothly in a circle. The dial contains hour and minute markers, but the numbers are missing. Therefore,…