As Congress prepares a strategy to trim the national deficit by more than $1 trillion over the next decade, legislators suggest cuts to government research.
As Congress prepares a strategy to trim the national deficit by more than $1 trillion over the next decade, legislators suggest cuts to government research.
The number of friends one has on Facebook correlates with the size of certain brain regions—and the number of friends made in real life.
The success rate of the government agency's grant applications has hit an all-time low.
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A campus housing several national research institutes and private companies braces for rising waters in the Southeast Asian country.
Two genome-wide studies, backed up by field experiments, identify SNPs that correlate with Arabidopsis fitness in various climates.
A new system of ranking scientific journals irks some metrics experts.
The first study of how cosmetics influence others' perceptions a woman’s personality suggests that makeup can make a difference.
Deletions or duplications of a certain genomic region implicated in autism can induce autism-like brain and behavior changes in mice.