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The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency’s investigation comes after a study showed prenatal exposure to topiramate roughly triples a child’s likelihood of having autism or intellectual disability.

A quintet of research papers, all involving subjecting newborn piglets to brain damage, have been retracted because the data can’t be substantiated.

The findings suggest a new hypothesis of Indo-European language evolution.

The center oversaw programs such as the Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship, many of which will continue.

The Scientist spoke with Maximilien Chaumon about his database showing how COVID-19 related lockdowns warped more 2,800 people’s perception of time.

The Biden administration will by 2026 require that all publicly funded work be deposited in designated repositories immediately on publication.

The findings will likely help elucidate the effects of chromosome fusions, which can cause disease but have also contributed to evolution.

Researchers developed a method to study ancient human DNA preserved by head lice.

A high-quality genome sequence for this versatile insect will likely aid eco-evolutionary research.

What triggers type 1 diabetes has been difficult to prove, but a bacterium that produces an insulin-like peptide can give mice type 1 diabetes, and infection with the microbe seems to predict the onset of the disease in humans.

Frogs invest in cognitive capacity to avoid predators—up until there are too many hungry snakes around for the evolutionary strategy to pay off.

An in situ map of copy number variations in prostate tissue reveals that purportedly cancerous genomic changes frequently occur in the healthy tissue surrounding tumors.