Until recently, a small team issued timely guidance on the types of contraception certain high-risk women should use.

As international research projects are upended, European leaders say they will fill the funding void. Is that realistic?

The U.S. has one of the world’s most advanced systems to monitor air pollutants. Can it keep up with a changing climate?

Millions have been spent to catch plagiarism and AI with tools from education company Turnitin. Is the tech worth it?

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New evidence suggests the universe might not behave as expected, raising questions about the costs of being wrong.

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In the spring of 2009, Samantha Noel, then a doctoral researcher at Massey University in Palmerston North, New Zealand, reached into Cow D’s rumen and plucked out a strain of Lachnospiraceae bacterium ...

Some advocates see corporate open-access as a pragmatic way of opening up research to the masses. But others see the new model as a corruption of the original vision — one that will continue to funnel ...

It isn’t hard to see why. Among mainstream scientists, the word feminist has often been viewed with disdain, hostility, and an implicit belief that feminist ideals are incompatible with true science — ...