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Researchers isolate roundworm DNA from animal excrement that is about 17,000 years old.

Malnourished kids who eat the fruit containing a naturally occurring toxin suffer from low blood sugar and symptoms of encephalopathy.

Researchers continued to meet and accept funding from the wealthy donor even after he was convicted of sex crimes in 2008.

After years of stalling, the agency says it plans to provide notice on pending applications from growers—but only after it establishes new regulations for suppliers.

Some experts blame our modern, sugary diet, while others think that gut microbiome changes and sedentary lifestyles may play a role. Altogether, the causes are far from clear.

If members don’t explicitly believe gender discrimination exists, they allow implicit stereotypes to sway their decision-making, according to a new analysis of real-world hiring decisions.

The institution completed an internal investigation into two professors and a staff researcher for duplicating images and fudging data.

Elsevier is now the only big scientific publisher that hasn’t struck a bargain with the German consortium of libraries and research institutions.

The FDA and the university have audited Kang Zhang for breaches in bioethics and a failure to follow research protocols.

A small study reports that, among children who had left-hemisphere damage as newborns, the complementary region of the right hemisphere appears to compensate and protect language development.

Scientists cultivate sulfate-reducing microbes from some of the oldest-known water on Earth.

Scientists are devising human-animal hybrids for harvesting human organs, but lab-derived mini-organs are a less ethically fraught solution to meeting the need for transplantation.