Fossils discovered in Australian rocks may be the remnants of three and a half billion-year-old microorganisms.
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.
A new exhibit at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia celebrates the work of an artist who is also the world’s authority on grasshoppers and crickets.
A conversation with Dan Otte, a South African artist and curator of entomology at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. Otte also happens to have discovered around 20 percent of the cricket species known to date.
Plant and fungal symbionts swap more resources with partners that provide a greater return of nutrients.
Scientists discover that ancestors of the unicellular fungi can synthesize essential biomolecules with only trace levels of O2.