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.
Researchers design a synthetic bacterium that kills the infectious microbe Pseudomonas aeruginosa, sacrificing itself in the process.
Caffeinated drinks may help prevent skin cancer by inhibiting a DNA repair pathway, thus killing potentially precancerous cells.
For the first time, researchers have engineered a multicellular organism that incorporates a synthetic amino acid into its proteins.
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.