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Hello and welcome to The Long Wave. It’s Morgan here, covering for Nesrine this week. There has been a recent rise in anti-LGBTQ legislation across a…

If you are in the knowledge-work class—and I suppose I am, though, being self-employed, I don’t often think that way—you are hearing about the miracles of…

It’s “common knowledge”—and the scare quotes should be a warning—that the sun is an average star.But it’s not, and in fact it’s not even close: The…

Grey-market injectable peptides – a category of substances with obscure, alphanumeric names such as BPC-157, GHK-Cu, or TB-500 – have developed a devoted following among biohackers…

Quantum mechanics is both the most powerful theory physicists have ever devised and the most baffling. On the one hand, countless experiments have confirmed its predictions;…

The UK is considering withdrawing from funding the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) beam pipe at CERN. Credit: Maximilien Brice/CERN/SPLThe United Kingdom’s largest research funder, UK…

Missiles are being guided with the assistance of AI in the Middle East.Credit: Eli Basri/SOPA Images/LightRocket via GettyThe escalating conflict between the United States, Israel and…

The west is in the midst of the most serious assault on free speech and academic freedom since the heyday of McCarthyism seven decades ago. For…

Jumping to a new research topic is intimidating but can enable diverse teams and creative breakthroughs.Credit: GettyIn science, careers are often imagined as linear: a direct…

First established as a treatment for diabetes, semaglutide’s popularity as a weight-loss drug has opened the door to new therapies.Credit: Ricardo Rubio/Europa Press via GettyWhat do…