More than 140 nations agree to a plan to limit global mercury emissions.
More than 140 nations agree to a plan to limit global mercury emissions.
The Obama administration announces a $10 million, 23-part plan to curb gun violence in the country.
More than 100 scientists signed a letter asking government to increase research on gun violence.
Researchers and biotech companies are bringing a universal flu vaccine closer to reality.
Bamboo sharks still developing in their egg cases respond to a predator presence by ceasing movement and even breathing.
A conservative republican, and supporter of research, will be the chair of the House appropriations committee that controls the budgets for the National Institutes of Health.
Carl Woese, the discoverer of the third domain of life, has passed away at age 84.
In the final chapter of his book on the origins of vertebrate sex, author and paleontologist John Long pays homage to the humble placoderm, which got the erotic ball rolling.
The rise of copulation as a vertebrate reproductive strategy may have driven crucial evolutionary change and explosive species radiation.
How photosynthetic organisms get taken up, passed around, and discarded throughout the eukaryotic domain