Fresh turmoil has hit the US National Science Foundation (NSF): hundreds more of the agency’s research grants were terminated ...

Unique reproducibility effort in Brazil focuses on common methods rather than a single field ― and prompts call for reform.

The relationship between pathology in the brain and alterations in the gut microbiome could lead to therapies — even if it’s ...

Like the Star Wars planet, a distant world follows a path around two stars, both of them small, cool bodies called brown ...

Research shows that, over the past two decades, rates of mental illness have been increasing in adolescents in many countries ...

A test for lead contamination in water, a project to measure the oldest light in the Universe and a study of heat and drought ...

As the administration of US President Donald Trump slashes budgets, crucial climate and other data sets could disappear.

Telltale signs of chatbot use are scattered through the scholarly literature — and, in some cases, have disappeared without a ...

A small, preliminary trial and studies in mice draw links between fibromyalgia and alterations of the gut microbiome.

Researchers pinpoint the genes responsible for the final three pea traits studied by the famed citizen scientist.

A genomic study of gut microbes during antibiotic use finds selective sweeps in a DNA gyrase gene that drive resistance.

Two studies show the extent of gunshot wounds inflicted by police and link certain police-department policies with a lower ...