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Fellow faculty members aren’t happy about it.

Even in mice with a busted circadian clock and an unhealthy diet, carefully timed feeding overcomes the rodents’ predispositions for metabolic diseases.

A government body that regulates higher education has asked universities for a “white list” of legitimate scientific journals by August 30.

Immune cells travel through these passageways to get to injured tissue quickly, researchers say.

A study compares verbal and math test scores to air quality measurements in China and finds a correlation.

Strong winds and heavy rain can sometimes wash the animals out to sea, but shortages of fresh drinking water and food are more worrisome as sea levels rise.

The sources of pollution are not known yet because of incomplete data collection.

Cancer treatments from Novartis and Gilead earn approval from EU regulators, but a first pass by the UK’s state-funded health service finds CAR T is too expensive. 

Rosehip neurons are not found in rodents. Perhaps they offer clues about what separates our brains from those of other animals.

Alzheimer’s disease will receive $2.3 billion, the biggest chunk of change devoted to one of the NIH’s various interests.

Among the experiments that came to the same result as the original, the effect size was smaller on average.

A case in which the University of Florida killed birds to protect crop research raises questions on the ethics of field studies’ potential side effects.