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

Having a lot of withdrawn papers will soon count against institutions but some warn the policy could create issues.

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

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

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

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

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

Submersible dives reveal a startling diversity of life in the depths of the Pacific Ocean — plus, how respiratory infections ...

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

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

Since the late 1990s, China has had several national-level talent recruitment programmes to attract overseas researchers, on ...

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