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French scientists identify a new giant virus, which carries the genome of a smaller virus and a new breed of mobile DNA.

Remote sensing helps control an invasive giant weed that threatens ecosystems and border security.

A survey of the prepublication histories of papers reveals that manuscripts that are rejected then resubmitted are cited more often.

Monkeys infected with simian immunodeficiency virus have a higher diversity of gut viruses, pointing to a possible role of the virome in SIV pathogenesis.

In a Phase I trial, researchers show that neural stem cells transplanted into humans can differentiate and begin producing myelin.

Robert J. Lefkowitz and Brian K. Kobilka take home this year’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry for revealing how membrane receptors sense and respond to chemical signals.

Politicians could make better decisions if they thought more like scientists, says Rush Holt, the only physicist in Congress.  

A round-up of recent discoveries in behavior research

John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka win this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine for learning how to reboot cellular development. 

Music videos could be helpful tools for science communication and education, but anti- and pseudoscience activists are also using this medium to spread their views.

Researchers claim to have successfully transformed stem cells into viable mouse oocytes that produced healthy, fertile pups.

Brain cells called pericytes can be reprogrammed into neurons with just two proteins, pointing to a novel way to treat neurodegenerative disorders.