The National Science Foundation, headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, funds about 25% of basic US academic research.Credit: JHVEPhoto/Alamy The US National Science Foundation (NSF), a major funder of basic academic research,
Omega-3 supplements have been shown to reduce the risk of falls and frailty in older people.Credit: Brian Jackson/Alamy Clinician-scientist Heike Bischoff-Ferrari and geroscientist Steve Horvath take omega-3 and vitamin D
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Hidden in the Heavens: How the Kepler Mission’s Quest for New Planets Changed How We View Our Own Jason Steffen Princeton Univ. Press (2024) In the mid-1980s, NASA engineer William
Illustration: David Parkins The problem Dear Nature, I joined my current laboratory at a large Western institution as a PhD student seven years ago. I’m now two years into a