A consensus is emerging that the dots, sometimes called rubies, are an entirely new type of object in the Universe.

Who will pay for global health? Scientists and policy leaders explored this question when they met this week at the World ...

Online stereotypes about younger women and older men could impact real-world hiring decisions.

A second blood test has been been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration to assist in diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease ...

CRISPR-based tools can’t easily access the DNA in these organelles, but researchers are finding other ways in.

People with certain forms of the MC4R gene have lower cholesterol levels than do other individuals with a high body-mass ...

Japan’s health authorities have declared an influenza epidemic, with thousands of people infected with the respiratory virus.

A surge in global temperatures has caused widespread bleaching and death of warm-water corals around the world.

Is it fair for grant reviewers — who are often our colleagues — to judge the legitimacy of career breaks due to personal ...

Sex cells made from scratch could revolutionize human reproduction. But researchers are struggling to translate promising ...

Enany, the agency’s first director-general from an Arab state, will lead the UN’s education, science and cultural ...

To dig deeper, the researchers developed a method for measuring activation patterns in astrocytes across a whole brain of a ...