The grant-review process plays significant roles in the education of researchers and in shaping scientific progress.
The grant-review process plays significant roles in the education of researchers and in shaping scientific progress.
A study demonstrating the production of human stem cells through cloning contained several mislabeled images, but the authors insist the results are real.
Researchers discover a microbe living at -15°C, the coldest temperature ever reported for bacterial growth, giving hope to the search for life elsewhere in the cosmos.
The agency told a Congressional committee that it would not forward peer-reviewer comments of social science grants the committee had requested.
The Asian harlequin ladybird carries a biological weapon to wipe out competing species.
A sequencing study suggests that some genes have evolved in parallel in humans and their canine companions, likely as a result of shared selection pressures.
Two new fossils of ancient primates shed light on the divergence of apes and Old World monkeys.
Symbiotic fungi on the roots of bean plants can act as an underground signaling network, transmitting early warnings of impending aphid attacks.
The decline of a population of Arctic foxes isolated on a small Russian island may be due to mercury pollution from their diet of seabirds and seals.
What researchers are learning as they sequence, map, and decode species’ genomes