Deadly epidemics can have a profound impact on people’s choice of religion.
Deadly epidemics can have a profound impact on people’s choice of religion.
The National Academy of Sciences will propose a plan for cutting back costs at state universities.
A new yeast species found in Patagonia appears to be the missing half of the long-used lager yeast.
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.
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.
A new microfluidics chip lets researchers analyze the nucleic acids of 300 individual cells simultaneously.