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

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 ...

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Democratic-led congressional committees and left-wing think tanks reference research papers more often than their right-wing ...

To study this history, population geneticist Harald Ringbauer at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...