A research misconduct case at the University of Melbourne exposed unethical authorship, led to retractions, and cost a PhD ...

The devastating retrovirus HTLV-1 has eluded scientists for decades. Overcoming chronic funding and other challenges, ...

The reason dogs beg, sit, stay, and shake for peanut butter could be both evolutionarily wired and learned behavior.

Motor neurons are some of the largest cells in the human body. In particular, upper neurons—extending from the cerebral cortex to the brain stem or spinal cord—average 60μm in diameter. 3,4 These ...

Tatsuya Nobori brings high-resolution multiomic approaches to plant biology to map how plants interact with microbes on a ...

Flies carrying disease-causing microbes will likely contaminate the food they touch, but different factors determine whether ...

Water bears survive cosmic radiation with one DNA-protecting protein, Dsup. Learning how could help protect humans against ...

Scientists leveraged plants’ built-in regeneration capacity to grow modified plants in weeks instead of months, offering a ...

Olga Anczukow and Ryan Englander discuss how transcriptome splicing affects immune system function in lung cancer.

Noise as loud as 85 to 100 decibels over time led to irreversible motor defects and loss of dopamine neurons in a mouse model ...

Researchers discovered how human astroviruses bind to a receptor on human cells at a molecular level, which could inform new ...

The 2025 government shutdown has halted grants, delayed research, and risks long-term damage to innovation, education, and ...