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Sterling Martin found that when he returned home to Shiprock while studying biochemistry at the University of Iowa, he had difficulty communicating his work to his family in their native tongue.

The future for scientists holding or applying for National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health and other federal grants and contracts is cloudy right now. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty ...

The Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Language Project is working to scrub “harmful” language from science. Earlier this month, several Ph.D.-wielding assistant professors, post-doctoral fellows, and ...

Not all microbes are pathogens (but this one, the mpox virus, is). When scientists use these words, they typically mean something completely different than what they do when non-scientists use them.

Growing up in the Navajo tradition, there was a distance between science and the culture. Project ENABLE was created to make scientific information accessible to Navajo communities. The Project ENABLE ...

To his peers in Shiprock, New Mexico, he was known as “the detective.” As a kid, he was always asking questions, wondering how things worked and why. “That’s probably where (my love of science) ...

Sometimes you and I need help with scientific terms. In today’s article, let’s look at the scientific terms used for animal groups. Why? For one thing, it helps to understand the types of animals in ...

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