New biography of Alan R. Moritz traces how forensic science learned to define what it can — and cannot — know.

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We sit down at the dinner table, pick up a fork, and take a juicy bite, obliv­ious to the double helping of global ...

A team at the University of Oxford has coaxed a single trapped ion into a quantum state so exotic it has no classical ...

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In the biggest jolt to abortion policy in the U.S. since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, a federal appeals court has ...

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