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Find the perfect present for the dedicated (or budding) scientists in your life
A new show at New York’s Museum of Art and Design celebrates olfaction and the science behind modern perfume making.
Three-dimensional genome maps are leading to a deeper understanding of how the genome’s form influences its function.
The crucial importance of language in the debate over the regulation of direct-to-consumer genetic tests
Researchers implant a glass pane in the abdominal walls of living mice to watch cancer cells metastasize to the liver.
Viral DNA in mice genomes may lead to cancer in immune-compromised animals.
Bees, sheep, and chimps are just a few of the animals known to self-medicate. Can they teach us about maintaining our own health?
Biomedical researchers would benefit from emulating the logically rigorous reasoning of the late Alan Turing, British mathematician, computer scientist, and master cryptographer.
Music videos could be helpful tools for science communication and education, but anti- and pseudoscience activists are also using this medium to spread their views.
Will the recently launched Reproducibility Initiative succeed in cleaning up research and reducing retractions?