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MPs have been debating a bill to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales. The bill would allow terminally ill adults with less than six months…

Annie Andrews was a dark horse Democrat challenging a five-term Republican in the US Senate when 314 Action, a political action fund devoted to electing scientists…

Number of bills to weaken vaccination rules or access By Amy Schoenfeld Walker and Lily Boyce The reporters examined hundreds of bills related to vaccines that…

Last month, at commemorations marking the 25th anniversary of France’s Taubira law recognising the trafficking of enslaved Africans as a crime against humanity, Emmanuel Macron did…

new video loaded: Candidates Clash in Last Televised Debate Before California PrimarytranscriptBacktranscriptCandidates Clash in Last Televised Debate Before California PrimarySeven candidates competing to be the next…

new video loaded: California Governor’s Race Heats Up on Crowded Debate StagetranscriptBacktranscriptCalifornia Governor’s Race Heats Up on Crowded Debate StageAttacks got personal as California’s top seven…

The University of Southern California nixed plans to host a gubernatorial debate after backlash over the exclusion of candidates of color. Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times…

An AI tool named after Albert Einstein (pictured) was taken down shortly after it was released.Credit: GK History Images/AlamyOn 23 February, academics across the world took…

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman.Over the past three and a half decades, journalist and author Michael Pollan…

Science has not yet settled whether an all-consuming social-media habit qualifies as a true addiction. Credit: Paul Hanna/AFP/GettyIs social media addictive to young people? A jury…