The Michigan Court of Appeals rules that anonymous commenters on the post-publication peer review website are protected under the First Amendment.

An analysis of ancient fish fossils suggests that mammalian and fish tails are fundamentally different structures, each with unique evolutionary histories.

Observational study suggests pubic hair grooming correlates with heightened risk of acquiring sexually transmitted infections, although causation remains unclear.

Erich Bloch, a Holocaust refugee who rose to prominence as director of the National Science Foundation, has passed away at age 91.

MRI scans and other assessments of high school football players reveal changes in brain tissue, correlated to head impacts, after just one season, researchers report.

The illicit drug has shown promise in helping people with debilitating post-traumatic stress disorder.

A noninvasive microscopy technique that exploits NADH fluorescence enables researchers to observe how mitochondria alter their shape and arrangement in human tissue.

President-elect Donald Trump chooses Representative Tom Price to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, Seema Verma to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Researchers tweak bacterial proteins, turning them into powerful enzymes capable of producing silicon-carbon compounds naturally and more efficiently than manmade catalysts.

Scientists use 12 microsatellites to watch as one captive female swellshark produces five pups without fertilization from a male.

After a large meal, Drosophila seem to drift into a stuffed stupor.

Researchers are beginning to decipher the metabolic language of the microbiome, and determine how gut microbes communicate with host tissue.