There are many reasons for the changes, but at least some researchers are curbing their travel to the United States because ...

An advisory committee of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) … has drafted a set of strict regulations to control the use of a revolutionary, but possibly hazardous, technique for manipulating ...

In September, the US government announced a one-off US$495-million funding boost for historically Black colleges and ...

Agency staff members say that the changes are reasonable, but they are worried about the potential effects on review.

A survey of 1,600 academics found that more than 50% have used artificial intelligence tools while peer reviewing manuscripts ...

In just the first weeks of Donald Trump’s second presidency, his administration embarked on making radical changes to US science.

There were huge disruptions to the global scientific enterprise this year — but immense bright spots for health, discovery, ...

A discovery in mice reveals why fasting enhances a type of breast cancer treatment — a hormone-signalling pathway and gene-expression changes have key roles. Stephen D. Hursting is in the Department ...

Genetic engineering is the act of modifying the genetic makeup of an organism. Modifications can be generated by methods such as gene targeting, nuclear transplantation, transfection of synthetic ...

Prominent bioengineer Ali Khademhosseini has so far corrected more than 40 of the papers in question, but critics say some ...

China is leading research in nearly 90% of the crucial technologies that “significantly enhance, or pose risks to, a ...

THIS is a book well worth reading, difficult to describe, and impossible to criticise. The title would lead one to expect a scientific analysis and classification of ancient signs and symbols, as well ...