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Despite having valid visas to attend universities, more than a dozen would-be graduate students have been detained at the airport and sent back to Iran in recent months.

The fast-track Global Talent visa will have no cap on the number of researchers able to come to the UK.

EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak speaks with The Scientist about how pathogens like 2019-nCoV jump species, and how to head off the next pandemic.

Stem cells from nine snake species respond to tissue culturing techniques previously used only on mouse and human stem cells.

In government agencies, 20 percent of high-level science appointments are vacant, The Washington Post reports.

This previously unknown mechanism for spotting foreign genetic material in the cytoplasm launches antiviral defenses even when the well-known immune mediator STING is absent.

Researchers are trying to figure out where it came from, whether it’s evolving, and just how big a threat it will be.

In mice, the fight-or-flight response overactivates the cells, causing a drop in their numbers, which leads to loss of hair color.

While the findings contradict previous studies that have linked human herpesvirus 6 to the neurodegenerative disease, they do not eliminate the possibility of a relationship.

Constructively critiquing the scientific literature should be an essential part of the postdoctoral experience, and early career researchers have shown that they are up to the task.

A new study precisely dates the event to 2.229 billion years ago and suggests that it may have been responsible for ending an ice age.

Genomic information from four children who lived thousands of years ago in what is now Cameroon could shed light on the spread of the Bantu languages and on the history of present-day African populations.