Archaeology can shine needed light on the evolution of our aggressive tendencies.
Archaeology can shine needed light on the evolution of our aggressive tendencies.
Italy’s outgoing health minister allows patients to receive an unproven stem cell cocktail at the government’s expense.
Attacks on my work aimed at undermining climate change science have turned me into a public figure. I have come to embrace that role.
Federal science agencies get some relief from the harsh cuts to their 2013 budgets instituted by the recent sequester.
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.
Newly constructed ramps will expand the habitat available to a colony of water voles in London, and similar ramps elsewhere could encourage isolated populations to mix.
Federal research agencies, such as the NIH, EPA, and NSF, are improving communication between their scientists and journalists, but most can do better.
A new analysis finds that while some federal agencies have made strides in safeguarding the validity of their research, more work needs to be done.
Transcriptome studies reveal new insights about unusual animals whose genomes have not been sequenced.