China and Japan have also closed their schools, prompting universities worldwide to assess the threat this virus poses to their local and international communities.

The time period, which spans 770,000 to 126,000 years ago, started with a reversal of the planet’s magnetic field.

Authorities had silenced Li Wenliang after he spoke out about the virus, now known as 2019-nCoV, in the early days of the epidemic.

Many researchers see the move to relax the rules as a welcome change, yet some are worried the revisions don’t take public concerns enough into consideration.

The treatment will be tested in a handful of patients who suffered nerve damage in sports or traffic accidents.

The 90-year-old marine biologist won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his isolation of green fluorescent protein.

Without knowing the cells’ mechanism of action, researchers question the best way to administer them to patients.

Unlike judges in the European Union, a government panel in Japan says transgenic modification and genome editing are not the same.

The scientists involved have hired lawyers to fight the conclusions of a recent investigation into some studies of Diovan in Japan.

The studded cells belong to a newly discovered species of water bear, Macrobiotus shonaicus. 

These insect transplants have the potential to wreak economic havoc by outcompeting native insects and destroying crops.

Marine species survived rafting thousands of kilometers on debris swept into the water by the giant wave, scientists say.

Ryoji Noyori is stepping down from his post as the leader of the premier Japanese research institute before his tenure expires.

A university panel has detected irregularities in 43 papers by Shigeaki Kato.

The Japanese government will allow a study of stem cell therapy using patients’ own cells, reprogrammed to be stem cells, to treat vision loss.

Scientific societies in Japan contend that a plan for an NIH-like agency to oversee the country’s science ministries will squash basic research.

Regulators are warning that the Asian country’s nuclear power infrastructure may still be vulnerable to earthquakes.

A dock dislodged by 2011's Japanese tsunami washes ashore in Oregon, posing an invasive species threat, but also serving as an unprecedented natural experiment in open-ocean dispersal.

Researchers map the fallout from Fukushima.