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NIH, NSF, and the DOE’s Office of Science will be among the agencies with budget increases if the omnibus bill is passed.

Mice who get less attention from their mothers have more copies of a common retrotransposon in the genomes of their hippocampal neurons.

Researchers pinpoint a protein that can metabolize at least one of the insecticides, highlighting a route to identifying compounds that are friendlier to the critical pollinators.

Two studies examining the effects of parents’ ages on their offsprings’ telomere lengths come to opposite conclusions.  

Eight papers by Suchitra Sumitran-Holgersson, a tissue engineer at the University of Gothenburg, have been flagged for image manipulation.

Rather, the breast cancer mutation screen was classified as a type of medical device with obligations for the company to reduce risks to customers.

Unlike in some animals, their sense of magnetoreception appears to be independent of blue light.

With the largest private gift to a public college, the new facility aims to infuse the local economy with fresh opportunities, but returns on the investment are anything but guaranteed.

Scientists and others have been opening their homes to research animals after the studies conclude, with legislation in some states now mandating adoption.

A device dubbed the “mother machine” enables real-time observation of mutagenesis in single bacterial cells.  

The finding suggests corvids may have an innate sense of number.

The suit claims that Rational Vaccines, the company of recently deceased researcher William Halford, violated US and international laws when it carried out the procedure.