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For years, a committee at CNRS has bucked the recommendations of its researchers to hire two social scientists, and colleagues conclude that prejudice is at play.

The agency argues that chlorpyrifos is one of few “cost-effective options” for controlling certain farm pests.

The current outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo has been going on for nearly a year, and the new status could bring in more funding and assistance.

Advanced single-cell optogenetic tools have enabled researchers to induce a learned behavior in mice without the associated visual cue.

Runoff and waste may be more harmful to the animals than climate change.

Researchers use two techniques—Wolbachia infection and irradiation—to suppress reproduction in populations of Asian tiger mosquitoes at two study sites in China.

Worms with the reproduction-related TCER-1 gene deleted could fight off infection for longer and survived better when exposed to heat and radiation.

Police are investigating “possible policy breaches” at the National Microbiology Laboratory.

In the wake of reports of CRISPRed babies born in China, a bipartisan resolution “opposes the experiments that resulted in pregnancies using genome-edited human embryos.”

Deaths attributed to the disease have outpaced those from Ebola this year.

Our survey of seminars in biology and chemistry shows that women ask fewer questions than men. We propose ways to change that.

Some variants implicated in the disease are also linked to other psychiatric disorders.