The Science and Innovation Fund for Ukraine and the Ukrainian Catholic University have announced the establishment of the ...

In a recent interview, Nicola Twilley talks about her reporting that followed scientists from the Institute for Mummy Studies ...

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Vaccines do not cause autism. Many scientists have studied this question, but no credible studies show that autism is caused by vaccines. In 1998, a paper in the scientific journal The Lancet ...

It’s been nearly a year since the National Academies’ Gulf Research Program (GRP) visited the site of the well #59 blowout in ...

From global shipping routes to the cables that power the internet, much of modern life depends on understanding a landscape that remains largely unmapped: the ocean floor. At the 27th annual Roger ...

All polygraph questioning techniques that aim at some form of standardization or reproducibility involve comparisons of physiological responses to questions of central interest for the investigation ...

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The X-ray backscatter advanced imaging technology (AIT) system is based on the backscatter imaging device described by Steven W. Smith in 1991. 1 In summary, a well-collimated pencil-beam of X rays is ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...