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Collins has announced his intent to step down after leading the National Institutes of Health for more than 12 years.

Meet some of the people featured in the October 2021 issue of The Scientist.

A full beard can absorb nearly 40 percent of the shock from a punch to the face, according to one winning study.

Finding and reporting an irregularity in a published study can lead people down an unexpected path.

Meet some of the people featured in the August 2021 issue of The Scientist.

Thanks to administrative shuffling, professor Carl-Wilhelm Vogel remains employed at the University of Hawai‘i despite the removal of his position in the new state budget, but the university’s faculty union says lawmakers might have crossed a legal line.

The organizers behind a Mothers in Science conference say that it’s time academia provide more support to researchers who are pregnant or looking after children.

Disconnects between end users and architects create additional costs and suboptimal design decisions. Here’s how to rectify that.

Conducting research to elucidate nature’s mysteries is reward enough.

The University of Sheffield researcher devises new protocols to gain molecular-level insights.

Tired of dancing to the tunes of international funders, and doubtful that long-promised national grants will come, a handful of African biomedical scientists have turned to private investors to bankroll their dreams of autonomy in the lab.

For researchers who work with study participants in person, lockdowns made it impossible to obtain fresh data, a survey finds.

Carl-Wilhelm Vogel could lose his position at the University of Hawai‘i Cancer Center if the currently proposed state budget is signed by Governor David Ige.

The NIH shared new data detailing complaints it has received in recent years, the latest in a series of steps taken by funding agencies and professional organizations to address misconduct.

The chemist refined nuclear magnetic resonance technology, giving rise to the development of MRI.

The culture of academia can make disabled scientists wary of disclosing their conditions or needs. Molecular biologist Justin Yerbury suggests how the system might become more inclusive. 

The editor-in-chief will step down this month following the release of a podcast in February that suggested systemic racism does not exist in medicine.

Rheumatologist Song Guo Zheng pleaded guilty in November to delivering US-funded research to China.

The 46-person panel will identify instances when politics got in the way of science since 2009.