This year, US politics was dominated by the run-up to October elections, with science policy issues playing a role here and elsewhere around the world.
This year, US politics was dominated by the run-up to October elections, with science policy issues playing a role here and elsewhere around the world.
The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas is under investigation following further concerns about the legitimacy of its grant review process.
The National Institutes of Health is considering a pilot program that would keep the identity of grant applicants hidden from reviewers.
Archaea packages DNA around histones in a similar way to eukaryotes, suggesting that fitting a large genome into a small space was not the original role of chromatin.
The poxvirus stockpiles genes when it needs to adapt.
Nominated as a write-in candidate as a protest against the anti-science incumbent, famed naturalist Charles Darwin won 4,000 congressional votes in a Georgia county.
In Chapter 2, "Consequences and Evolution: The Cause That Works Backwards," author Susan M. Schneider places evolutionary theory in terms of the science of consequences.
Genes from fungi, bacteria, and viruses may have helped mosses and other plants to colonize the land.