The National Institutes of Health will get tough on grantees who fail to comply with its open-access funding rule.
The National Institutes of Health will get tough on grantees who fail to comply with its open-access funding rule.
A new study reveals a large mix of microbes in most human belly buttons.
The malaria vaccine under development by GSK and the PATH initiative only protects about one in three babies, though some researchers say those odds are better than nothing.
A third dose of the MMR vaccine given during an intense outbreak appears to have provided herd-immunity to control the spread of the disease.
Contrary to previous studies, a new publication finds that most retractions from scholarly literature are not due to misconduct.
Retracting a paper from the scientific literature can lead to fewer citations for related studies.
New noninvasive methods of selecting the most viable embryo could revolutionize in vitro fertilization.
| November 1, 2012
Meet some of the people featured in the November 2012 issue of The Scientist.
Successive awakening of soil microbes drives a huge pulse of CO2 following the first rain after a dry summer.
Large RNA-protein packets use a novel mechanism to escape the cell nucleus.