Robert J. Lefkowitz and Brian K. Kobilka take home this year’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry for revealing how membrane receptors sense and respond to chemical signals.
Robert J. Lefkowitz and Brian K. Kobilka take home this year’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry for revealing how membrane receptors sense and respond to chemical signals.
Music videos could be helpful tools for science communication and education, but anti- and pseudoscience activists are also using this medium to spread their views.
In Chapter 3, "Out of the Tropics," author Nina G. Jablonski, explores the genes behind skin pigmentation and makes the distinction between color and race.
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The biological and social ramifications of skin pigmentation are too often ignored by scientists, teachers, and the general public.
An analyst that worked for a state drug lab in Massachusetts has confessed to mishandling evidence in tens of thousands of drug cases.
Will the recently launched Reproducibility Initiative succeed in cleaning up research and reducing retractions?
Security concerns during the Cold War may have led to the generation of misinformation on the physiological effects of microwave radiation from mobile phones.
Both male and female researchers are less likely to hire a female candidate than a male candidate with the same experience.