Members of species with shells they must hold onto for survival have larger sexual tubes than those with less precious private property.

With the lapse in government funding in its fourth week, early-career researchers tell The Scientist how their businesses, jobs, and research have been affected.

Immune checkpoint inhibitors are generally most effective against tumors with more genetic mutations, according to a new study, although the relationship isn’t true for all cancers.

Images from the country’s Chang’e-4 lunar lander show the first sprouting plants.

Men’s pain tolerance decreases when exposed to a setting where they’ve previously had a painful experience.

The wild population of the species was declared extinct almost 40 years ago, but now researchers have found their genes in a pack of canines near the Gulf coast.

The UCSD psychiatry researcher championed the concept of mental illness as a neurobiological condition and helped form the US government’s Decade of the Brain initiative.

From missing paychecks to delayed grants to canceled travel, federal research is feeling the sting.

Changes in gene expression also hint at how the brains of people with ASD develop differently from those of other people.