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A proposal to do so would cause waste, promote less sustainable fisheries, and penalize US fishers who follow best practices.

Decades of evidence point to the untoward health effects of endocrine disruptor exposures, yet little is being done to regulate the chemicals.

The pause on campus operations, which could last a month, is just one example of the hurricane’s devastation.

In a case of acoustic deception, caterpillars mimic bird alarm calls to defend themselves.

A tweaked Cas9 nuclease reduces off-target effects to levels below that of previous versions of the enzyme.

A former employee alleges that J. Craig Venter and others at his company treated women unfairly.

The brains and bodies of young female rats can be accelerated into puberty by the presence of an older male or by stimulation of the genitals.

Amphibians resist their own chemical defenses with amino acid modifications in the sequence for a target receptor.

Recording from single neurons of epilepsy patients, neuroscientists show that both the strength and timing of neuronal firing are important to consciously perceive a visual object. 

An analysis of 14,000 genomes reveals regions where new mutations are more likely to develop.

The pirate site plans to ignore the lawsuits from Elsevier and the American Chemical Society.

At the University of Texas’s Marine Science Institute, the hurricane caused more than $100 million in damage, killed hundreds of study animals, and displaced numerous researchers, but its work continues.