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This year’s winners are C. David Allis, Michael Grunstein, John Glen, and Joan Steitz.

Some scientists are taking advantage of the monster storm to study how ecosystems and animals respond to major disturbances.

A study of chemical tags on histone proteins hints at how the same genome can yield very different animals.

The 600-meter-long structure will tackle the Great Pacific Garbage Patch—a huge buildup of trash floating between California and Hawaii—but not everyone thinks it will work.

Officials in one county are running operations to clean up the rotting fish.

The higher court’s decision to uphold the ruling of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board essentially ends the intellectual property battle in the US.

José Baselga of Memorial Sloan Kettering took millions of dollars from drug and health care companies but did not report the payments in his research articles.

The brain’s immune cells gobble up synapses in the hippocampi of rodents fed high-fat or high-sugar diets.

The move to online-only will allow for articles to be longer in length.

A letter in Science garners dozens of signatures.

Using bioinformatics, two teams of scientists identified inhibitory proteins for Cas9’s relative.

Boosting both neurogenesis and a brain-derived growth factor can mimic the cognitive benefits of exercise in a mouse mode of Alzheimer’s disease.