Universities must be frank about barriers to equity, devise clear metrics for what they are trying to achieve and measure ...

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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