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Instead of taking pride in how quickly they cover the same stories as everyone else, these organizations make public service journalism their top priority.

The second world war forced eugenicists to retreat to the fringes of science - but still found ways to publish in journals.

In the 1980s, CSIRO and its university collaborators set into motion a chain of events that would lead to the production of relenza, the first drug to successfully treat the flu.

Proposals for new oil and gas pipelines can generate intense debate today, but during World War II the US built an oil pipeline more than 1,300 miles long in less than a year.

Parasites are not only a personal health problem – they are political too.

Psychologists have stigmatised science fiction fans as losers who retreat into fantasy worlds. This is unfair.

To some, superhero films are the equivalent of fracking. But they offer audiences transcendence, mystery, a moral compass, and even the hope of salvation.

Governments lean on science advisers for guidance on increasingly complex issues of great concern, including oil and gas development, drug legalization, water quality and the environment.

The recent arrest of a Chinese-born scientist at MIT raises questions about the value of international science collaboration and its impact on the American innovation system.

This rain would include acids but also likely many other pollutants harmful to humans and the environment. It may be worse than the term ‘acid rain’ conveys.