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Diagnosing the state of President Donald Trump’s political health should be a simple matter. The story that the traditional metrics tell is straightforward. On a good day for him, Trump’s approval rating might crack 40 percent. But a more typical day lately will put him in the mid- to high-30s, […]
By capturing the crystal structure of RNA polymerase during a nontraditional form of transcription — reiterative transcription — researchers have identified a new pathway used by RNA to exit an enzyme.
Female teenagers living in neighborhoods with wide salary gaps and a low-income household show changes to their brain maturation that could indicate a higher risk of developing mental illness in adulthood.
Researchers have studied satellite photographs of Lake Catalina, an ice-dammed lake in East Greenland — and were truly amazed: Unnoticed by science as well as people living in the area, the lake has been the source of four major outburst floods over the last 50 years — each representing an […]
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — The Taliban had called for special prayers in the hope President Donald Trump would call for a complete withdrawal from Afghanistan, members of the group told NBC News. Trump ended up taking the opposite path on Monday and backed a continued military presence that centered around empowering […]
About two years ago, scientists discovered that a certain class of receptors is capable of perceiving mechanical stimuli. Now they have begun to unravel the molecular mechanisms behind the discovery.
This could be a tough pill for President Trump to swallow. German police seized tens of thousands of dollars-worth of Donald Trump-shaped orange ecstasy tablets during a traffic stop, according to a release issued on Monday. Osnabrück Police in the northwest German state of Lower Saxony wrote in a Facebook […]
Researchers have identified all the genes required by a bacterium to use methanol as a food source. The results will help scientists advance the use of this resource in the field of biotechnology.
Scientists have demonstrated that the response of the human heart to an infarction is very different to what was previously thought.
Using a combination of theory and experiment, a multi-institutional team are creating simulations to speed up advanced material design.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s wife Louise Linton tore into an Instagram user on Monday night after being criticized for tagging several designer brands in an image of the couple de-boarding a government plane. Linton, 36, who married Mnuchin earlier this year, initially posted the image of the pair landing in […]
When Trystan Reese and Biff Chaplow look back at the past year of their life together, it can be hard for the two men to see where all the time went. “I look back and think, that happened so fast,” Reese told NBC News from the family’s home in Portland, […]
The remains of “some” American sailors have been found in sealed compartments aboard the USS John S. McCain, Adm. Scott Swift of the U.S. Pacific Command said Tuesday. Swift said the Malaysian Navy, which has also been involved in the search, has located “potential” remains and they are working to […]
Motor Authority More It’s a situation drivers are all too familiar with: cruising along the road when suddenly a tire goes flat. Curse words, struggles, and inconvenience ensue. Researchers at Harvard University have developed a potential solution that could put flat tires, and the baggage that comes with them, in […]
JERSEY CITY, N.J. ─ On the ground floor of a deteriorating county courthouse, in a room outfitted with temporary office furniture and tangles of electrical wires, a cornerstone of America’s criminal justice system is crumbling. A 20-year-old man in a green jail jumpsuit appears on a video monitor that faces […]
A city council meeting in Charlottesville, Virginia, erupted in fury on Monday night over the authorities’ handling of a white nationalist rally that left a woman dead and 19 people injured. The agenda for the meeting — the first since the Aug. 12 rally — did not mention the rally […]
President Donald Trump is reportedly considering a pardon for Joe Arpaio, the controversial former Arizona lawman with a reputation as “America’s toughest sheriff.” That would surely be good news for Arpaio, who was voted out of office last year and was recently convicted of criminal contempt-of-court. But it appears the […]
President Donald Trump announced a new approach — but no details — for the U.S. war in Afghanistan on Monday, marking a major policy reversal for the man who in recent years had insisted America pull out of the war-torn country. Acknowledging that his “original instinct was to pull out, […]
Congressional Republicans, who have had their differences with President Donald Trump, rallied behind the commander-in-chief Monday night after his speech outlining what he called a new plan for the 16-year-old U.S. war in Afghanistan. Trump spoke in a forceful tone but offered few specifics in the 30-minute nationally televised address, […]