The organizers behind a Mothers in Science conference say that it’s time academia provide more support to researchers who are pregnant or looking after children.

Disconnects between end users and architects create additional costs and suboptimal design decisions. Here’s how to rectify that.

Conducting research to elucidate nature’s mysteries is reward enough.

The University of Sheffield researcher devises new protocols to gain molecular-level insights.

Tired of dancing to the tunes of international funders, and doubtful that long-promised national grants will come, a handful of African biomedical scientists have turned to private investors to bankroll their dreams of autonomy in the lab.

For researchers who work with study participants in person, lockdowns made it impossible to obtain fresh data, a survey finds.

Carl-Wilhelm Vogel could lose his position at the University of Hawai‘i Cancer Center if the currently proposed state budget is signed by Governor David Ige.

The NIH shared new data detailing complaints it has received in recent years, the latest in a series of steps taken by funding agencies and professional organizations to address misconduct.

The chemist refined nuclear magnetic resonance technology, giving rise to the development of MRI.

The culture of academia can make disabled scientists wary of disclosing their conditions or needs. Molecular biologist Justin Yerbury suggests how the system might become more inclusive. 

The editor-in-chief will step down this month following the release of a podcast in February that suggested systemic racism does not exist in medicine.

Rheumatologist Song Guo Zheng pleaded guilty in November to delivering US-funded research to China.

The 46-person panel will identify instances when politics got in the way of science since 2009.

Free’s dip-and-read urinalysis allowed diabetics to monitor glucose levels at home, rather than at a hospital.

After resigning from the University of New England last year, Geoffrey Bove continues to study the effects of massage on rats in a facility he set up in his house.

Now more than ever before, recruiting patients for a research study doesn’t have to mean getting them to leave their homes.

Tying federal research funding to scientists’ efforts to inform and engage the public can help fix widespread indifference to science.

The pandemic continues to make it difficult for researchers to get reagents and other materials in high demand for COVID-19 research and testing, threatening experiments’ progress and scientists’ careers.

Priceless collections of books, manuscripts, and personal papers have been lost.