Fresh turmoil has hit the US National Science Foundation (NSF): hundreds more of the agency’s research grants were terminated ...

Unique reproducibility effort in Brazil focuses on common methods rather than a single field ― and prompts call for reform.

Like the Star Wars planet, a distant world follows a path around two stars, both of them small, cool bodies called brown ...

Research shows that, over the past two decades, rates of mental illness have been increasing in adolescents in many countries ...

The United States is known for the deep polarization between its two major political parties — the right-wing Republicans and left-wing Democrats. Now an analysis of hundreds of thousands of ...

The relationship between pathology in the brain and alterations in the gut microbiome could lead to therapies — even if it’s ...

A small, preliminary trial and studies in mice draw links between fibromyalgia and alterations of the gut microbiome.

As the administration of US President Donald Trump slashes budgets, crucial climate and other data sets could disappear.

A test for lead contamination in water, a project to measure the oldest light in the Universe and a study of heat and drought ...

Telltale signs of chatbot use are scattered through the scholarly literature — and, in some cases, have disappeared without a ...