Health data from 5,744 adults over the age of 50 reveals an association between stressors such as discrimination and a relatively small proportion of younger infection-fighting immune cells.

The discovery, made on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia, constitutes an exceptionally high number of new mammals to be described in a single paper.

Responses collected from around 25,000 academics reveal that 20 percent couldn’t do their work at all in the spring, but most had found ways to keep their research going.

Almost 60 percent of people in a new study on attitudes in the US felt comfortable using animals to grow human organs from induced pluripotent stem cells.

Norris, who founded the research firm Bio-Waves, furthered the study of marine mammals using passive acoustic monitoring technology he designed himself.

Research has repeatedly suggested that spending time in natural environments improves mental and physical well-being. Now, scientists are gathering the data needed to incorporate this phenomenon in health-care guidelines.

If members don’t explicitly believe gender discrimination exists, they allow implicit stereotypes to sway their decision-making, according to a new analysis of real-world hiring decisions.

Just half of respondents in Eastern Europe agree that vaccines are safe.

More than 20 percent of survey respondents said they had experienced some form of harassment within the last 12 months.

A study finds professors from underrepresented groups more actively engage in diversity and inclusion activities.

After three years with very few new chicks, the birds are abandoning one of the biggest breeding sites on the continent, satellite images show.

Some academic institutions are beginning to complement the work of student organizations in addressing mental health problems in graduate school.

From the difficulty of tracking rare populations to the danger of poachers exploiting distribution data, the complications of studying endangered species require creative solutions from researchers.

Numbers of the wildcat, greater mouse-eared bat, and black rat have critically fallen in the U.K.  

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Americans and Australians aren’t far behind, according to a questionnaire of researchers.

Trained spotters haven’t seen any newborns, suggesting trouble for the animal’s overall survival.

An online survey finds that people report feeling most relaxed with a glass of red wine or beer, and most aggressive when drinking spirits.

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