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Macrophage-MSC interactions are dynamic. Following injury, neutral (M0) macrophages arrive at the defect site and polarize towards M1 (pro-inflammatory) macrophages, which can secrete inflammatory an....

Proposed changes to the agency's budget threaten new cures

AbstractRecycled plastics suffer from inferior performance due to sorting errors, which limits their commercial adoption. Macromolecular compatibilizers ha

The agency has awarded fewer grants in the physical sciences this year than most years in its history.

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Ancient glass objects typically show distinctive effects of deterioration as a result of environmentally induced physicochemical transformations of...

Some solids - say, powdered raw materials in a conduit - often become jammed. Are the properties of such jammed solids different to those of ordinary solids? The answer 'yes' comes from a paper in whi...

Opinion | A recent federal rule change will soon place a strict limit on how long international students can study in the U.S.

Some of the classes removed from UH’s core curriculum include those discussing race and gender, such as Introduction to LGBT Studies, Women and Gender in Arabic Literature, and Intro to Global Climate...

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

The University of Houston System Board of Regents has approved removing about 40 percent of the courses that counted toward its flagship institution’s core curriculum requirements.

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A Wyoming woman joins a lawsuit accusing Grok of creating thousands of explicit AI images from her childhood photos, raising new questions about AI safety.

Texas colleges and universities are facing major pressure to reduce what conservative lawmakers see as "indoctrination" in the classroom.

The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.

In case you weren't aware, in addition to the OMB proposed rule changes which just concluded their public comment period, the NSF has put f...

Mitotic chromosome size and shape are influenced by conditions that control ionic hydrogels

The exodus of non-US citizens has “certainly” been influenced by science funding and visa policy changes under Trump, a new AIP report says.