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Steven Chu, the president-elect of the scientific organization, is a Nobel laureate and physicist at Stanford University.

The near-complete feminization of northern Great Barrier Reef sea turtles has been blamed on climate change.

These mothers and babies keep each other in their left visual fields during maternal care, which aids right-hemisphere processing. 

The use of underperforming computational tools is a major offender in science’s reproducibility crisis—and there’s growing momentum to avoid it.

A genetic library for African rhinoceros populations has helped match illegally trafficked products to individual poached animals in more than 120 criminal cases. 

Researchers identify patterns of neural activity ranging from a few days to four weeks in individuals with epilepsy.

Three studies—one of mice and two of human genetics—describe the role of two proteins, adenylyl cyclase and melanocortin 4 receptor, in the development of obesity and diabetes. 

To correct gender disparities in academic science, the Max Planck Society and the Australian government are taking the uncommonly direct approach of affirmative action.

Pancreatic cells engineered to produce insulin did not immediately provoke an immune response.

Pale skin and hanging eyelids are tell-tale signs of apparent illness.

The genome of an infant who lived in Alaska thousands of years ago represents a previously unknown group of humans called Ancient Beringians, who share a common lineage with other Native Americans. 

The mini-organs reproduce the two cell layers present in mouse skin and the development of hair follicles, providing a potential model for skin and hair research.