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Three researchers, Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou, and Donna Strickland, who worked on optical tweezers and chirped pulse amplification win the 2018 award.

Members of the Global Young Academy discuss how later retirement of academics affects the younger generation.

Inflammation may be a strong contender for the connection between mom’s weight and children’s neurodevelopment, according to lab studies on animals.

The immunologists, honored with the 2018 award in Physiology or Medicine, pioneered immunotherapy, which harnesses the body’s immune system to fight cancer.

Using his expertise in microbiology and bioinformatics, he is bringing a new understanding to microbial immune systems.

Researchers studied 3,000-year-old skeletal remains from Mongolia to understand the origins of veterinary dental practices.

Results of a study suggest that toxicologists should look further than exposed individuals for contaminant effects.

Learning about your own genetic idiosyncrasies comes with complex emotions.

Agencies such as the NIH reward the discovery of vulnerabilities in their computer systems—before criminals can exploit them.

Methylation patterns at so-called metastable epialleles in the genome stamp a memory into each of our cells.

Archived footage of cycling races and other events can help ecologists track the timing of plants’ leafing and flowering.

One variant limited the brain’s ability to use glucose.