Italy’s outgoing health minister allows patients to receive an unproven stem cell cocktail at the government’s expense.
Italy’s outgoing health minister allows patients to receive an unproven stem cell cocktail at the government’s expense.
Researchers demonstrate that brain activity in response to a decision-making challenge predicts the likelihood that released prisoners will be re-arrested.
Attacks on my work aimed at undermining climate change science have turned me into a public figure. I have come to embrace that role.
Researchers identify a protein involved in the chromosomal disorder that could explain its characteristic learning deficits.
Federal science agencies get some relief from the harsh cuts to their 2013 budgets instituted by the recent sequester.
Researchers find that temporary double-stranded DNA breaks commonly result from normal neuron activation—but expression of an Alzheimer’s-linked protein increases the damage.
Computer programs that trawl research papers can reveal important large-scale patterns and facilitate further research, but publishers are wary.
Researchers show that a bacterium’s self-sacrifice can benefit its community, even when the members are not strongly related.
Improvements in light-sheet microscopy enable real-time activity imaging of almost every neuron in the brain of zebrafish larvae.
Federal research agencies, such as the NIH, EPA, and NSF, are improving communication between their scientists and journalists, but most can do better.