Deadly epidemics can have a profound impact on people’s choice of religion.
Deadly epidemics can have a profound impact on people’s choice of religion.
A new estimate of eukaryotic diversity suggests a total of 8.7 million species. So far, scientists have discovered only 1.2 million of them.
The National Academy of Sciences will propose a plan for cutting back costs at state universities.
A new yeast species found in Patagonia appears to be the missing half of the long-used lager yeast.
Fossils discovered in Australian rocks may be the remnants of three and a half billion-year-old microorganisms.
A new study reveals that African American researchers are 10 percent less likely to receive funding from the federal agency than their white peers.
Ten years after an investigative report found that 10 papers on sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) were “flawed,” only one has been pulled from the literature.
UK’s Research Councils may fund fewer new doctoral students in the upcoming academic year.
Statistician Paul Meier, who championed the random assignment of patients to treatment groups in clinical trials, changed the way the researchers test experimental drugs.
Two newly described fossils suggest that wood is some 10 million years older than previous believed.