Universities must be frank about barriers to equity, devise clear metrics for what they are trying to achieve and measure ...

Unique reproducibility effort in Brazil focuses on common methods rather than a single field ― and prompts call for reform.

Fresh turmoil has hit the US National Science Foundation (NSF): hundreds more of the agency’s research grants were terminated ...

Research shows that, over the past two decades, rates of mental illness have been increasing in adolescents in many countries ...

Like the Star Wars planet, a distant world follows a path around two stars, both of them small, cool bodies called brown ...

The United States is known for the deep polarization between its two major political parties — the right-wing Republicans and left-wing Democrats. Now an analysis of hundreds of thousands of ...

The relationship between pathology in the brain and alterations in the gut microbiome could lead to therapies — even if it’s ...

As the administration of US President Donald Trump slashes budgets, crucial climate and other data sets could disappear.

A test for lead contamination in water, a project to measure the oldest light in the Universe and a study of heat and drought ...

A small, preliminary trial and studies in mice draw links between fibromyalgia and alterations of the gut microbiome.