Having a lot of withdrawn papers will soon count against institutions but some warn the policy could create issues.

Senate budget bill includes small increase for the health-research agency — but faces a long road before being signed into ...

When people viewed virtual avatars with coughs or rashes, their brains triggered an immune response. The brain activates ...

But researchers still disagree widely on how best to describe the physical reality that lies behind the mathematics, as a ...

The system will save time spent on processing satellite data, researchers say — but they hope the tech firm will share more ...

The evolution of that tuber has been a mystery: the form of the modern potato plant most closely resembles that of three ...

Sometimes, cancer cells that have spread become ‘dormant’ but can start proliferating again later. A cue that can reactivate ...

The immune system senses damage to cell membranes caused by pore-forming proteins and mounts a response. The sneezing, itchy ...

NISAR — which stands for NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar — will use two radar instruments operating at different ...

Despite being best known for his humorous and satirical songs, Tom Lehrer, who died on 26 July at the age of 97, spent most ...

Imaging suggests that more than one tattooist applied pigment to the hands and forearms of a woman who lived more than two ...

Hidden in the lungs of some breast cancer survivors are tumour cells that can remain dormant for decades — until they one day ...