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A congressional hearing covered the rise of paper mills and the costs of open-access publishing — but there was little ...

Three life-science prizes were awarded for advances in gene therapies. Opthalmologists Jean Bennett and Albert Maguire, and ...

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Efforts to boost tree cover and restore degraded land globally need stable funding and time to learn from failure.

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A team developing light-sensitive cancer drugs has won a US$2-million Quantum for Bio (Q4Bio) prize for demonstrating a ...