A parasitic wasp castrates its moth larvae hosts by injecting them with a ‘domesticated’ virus that causes cells in the ...

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Another complication is how social-media use is evaluated: many studies look only at total amount of time spent on the ...

Staff members at the United States’s premier infectious-disease research institute have been instructed to remove the words “biodefense” and “pandemic preparedness” from the institute’s web pages, ...

But funding proposals to US agencies also tend to be more similar to previously funded projects if they are written or edited ...

Overturning the 2009 decision means billions of extra tonnes of greenhouse-gas emissions over the next three decades.

Biologists, physicists and computer scientists have joined a platform called RentAHuman.ai to advertise their skills.

Large language models (LLMs) can suggest hypotheses, write code and draft papers, and AI agents are automating parts of the research process. Although this can accelerate science, it also makes it ...

Researchers identify genetic mutation in small group of people who developed the serious disorder after receiving the AstraZeneca or Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

The work reveals that the brain — in mice and, presumably, in humans — is actively involved in the development of endurance, the ability to get better at a physical activity with repeated practice, ...

In the early 1960s, after studies confirmed that it was linked to congenital disorders in more than 10,000 children, ...

China’s science ministry will crack down on universities that fail to investigate or sanction researchers who are involved in ...