Generations of researchers have tried to create a quantum theory of gravity, and their work has produced sophisticated ...

David Jewitt at the University of California, Los Angeles, and his colleagues studied images from ground-based and ...

US researchers were hopeful when Donald Trump appointed Michael Kratsios to a top science position, but many say he has ...

Preprint servers are seeing a rise in submissions seemingly produced by paper mills or with help from AI tools.

As federal support vanishes for research addressing the root causes of health disparities in the United States, we are left ...

US President Donald Trump has used a series of executive orders to reshape US science. Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty. US ...

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New approach finds ‘parent-of-origin’ effects in more than a dozen genes — without the need for parental data.

Report authors welcome ‘serious’ scientific rebuttals to report that some say misrepresents decades of climate science.

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