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Having a lot of withdrawn papers will soon count against institutions but some warn the policy could create issues.

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...