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Utah is no longer majority Mormon, a new paper published this month in the Journal of Religion and Demography estimates.

Rescue teams on Sunday in Turkey successfully carried an American researcher up from the depth of a cave at 1040 meters.

Four people were locked inside a Mars simulation on Sunday at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, and will remain there for over a year.

A drug designed by generative artificial intelligence has made history by reaching Phase 2 human trials for the first time.

A custodial worker is accused of damaging more than 25 years of research in a private New York university’s laboratory by turning off a super-cold freezer to silence a beeping alarm.

Three gain-of-function researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology fell ill with an “unknown illness” in 2019 prior to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, including a researcher who received $41 million in U.S. government grants.

The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) on Thursday launched a project called the Critical Technology Tracker, which collects and visualizes data representing worldwide progress on “crucial technology fields spanning defense, space, robotics, energy, the environment, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, advanced materials and key quantum technology areas.”

The artificial sweetener, erythritol, has been linked to a higher risk of heart attack and stroke, according to findings published in Nature Medicine.

China recently deployed a survey vessel to Sri Lanka’s Hambantota Port — which Colombo ceded to Beijing on a 99-year lease in 2017 after defaulting on debt to China — Reuters reported on Thursday, noting that the vessel’s deployment to Sri Lanka has irked nearby India which denounced the Chinese research mission as a possible threat to New Delhi’s “security and economic interests.”

Making puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones easier for minors to access has increased youth suicide rates, a new report asserts.

Japan’s National Institute of Science and Technology Policy on Tuesday announced that China has overtaken the United States for publishing influential and widely-cited papers on the natural sciences, including chemistry and engineering.

President Joe Biden’s surrender to the coronavirus, reversing course and ushering in peak pandemic-era restrictions including masking vaccinated individuals, appears to be partially based on research from India, which included a vaccine not approved in the United States. 

Advancements in cancer research in the UK could be delayed by two years due to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, has said.

In a major breakthrough, Israeli scientists have grown mouse embryos in artificial wombs and have said humans could be next.

NIH issued a press release on Wednesday calling for increasing the number of pregnant and lactating “people” in coronavirus research.

A dozen Israeli researchers were ranked among the world’s top 50 in their disciplines, a new study from Stanford University showed, with a further 333 researchers coming in the top two percent of the world.

Japanese scientists have journeyed to the vast expanses of the Australian outback to retrieve a capsule containing the first sub-surface samples from an asteroid, ending a six-year journey of more than three billion miles.

Reuters reported Monday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is planning a nationwide study on the spread of coronavirus into next year — and that the study will involve 325,000 participants.

A Chinese firm conducting trial coronavirus vaccine research is reportedly looking for foreign human guinea pigs to step up and volunteer to test their work.

The H-E-B grocery company is dedicating $300,000 to help fund a Chinese coronavirus research project in San Antonio, Texas, according to a statement on Monday.

Researchers found in a 2017 study that edits to Wikipedia about scientific subjects influenced the content of scientific literature and what studies would be cited in papers based on their usage on the “online encyclopedia.” Last year, another study found edits about Spanish cities had a measurable impact on tourist activity and an earlier study found investor sentiment could also be influenced. In the case of scientific research, the results showed that the creation of one Wikipedia page influenced up to 250 scientific papers.

A 10-year-old girl in DuBois, Pennsylvania, is raising money and even using her own hair to help children battling cancer. 

A report from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) has claimed that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army has used groups to infiltrate universities across Western Europe.

Illegal migrants are subsidizing Americans, Pete Buttigieg told a December 1 meeting hosted by progressives in North Carolina.

A Jeopardy! champion with a big heart has donated a portion of his winnings to cancer research in honor of his role model, Alex Trebek. 

An Ohio 7th grader with a big heart is being hailed a hero for his recent act of charity during a county fair.

Recent studies performed by researchers at Penn State find that the devastating effects of the opioid epidemic may have cost states at least $130 billion in treatments.

A little boy in Denver, Colorado, who lost his father to cancer this month, started a lemonade stand to raise money for a date with his mom.

TEL AVIV – Israeli researchers said they have found a way to transform skin cells into the three major stem cell types that comprise early-stage embryos, with the next step being to create whole embryos without the need for sperm or eggs. 

President Donald Trump’s deputies are debating whether to protect U.S. research by limiting the hiring of Chinese technology graduates, according to leaked reports provided to the New York Times.

A new study suggests that personal embarrassment can be mitigated by identifying with observers, rather than the subject themselves.

By freezing the “hunger nerve,” doctors may have discovered the secret to the body’s natural “revenge” on caloric restriction.

Public criticism of the German auto industry has escalated on reports that diesel exhaust tests were carried out on both monkeys and humans.

A new study shows that joblessness weighs on men more than women. Men’s mental health starts to deteriorate as soon as they exit the labor market. Women are apparently made of sterner stuff: their mental health only worsen’s after they’ve been out of the labor force for a period of time.

The European Union has unveiled its biggest defence research plan in more than a decade, reversing cuts amounting to billions of Euros, in a bid to prove to President-elect Donald Trump that it plans to pay for its own security.

Virtual scent seekers in pursuit of that scent-selfie, fragrant floral photo, or a scent to accompany that Instagram food shot may be in luck. Debate continues, however, over whether scent technology will be the next leading tech breakthrough in 2015.