There’s no mystery to innovation and economic growth; the US must nurture its scientists or find out the hard way.

Survey of thousands of young people shows that those with mental health conditions spend more time on social-networking sites ...

Most people need around eight hours of sleep each night to function, but a rare genetic condition allows some to thrive on as ...

Huge reductions, if enacted, could have ‘catastrophic’ effects on US competitiveness and the scientific pipeline, critics say ...

An ambitious plan to stop the global threat of AIDS has been derailed. But many are hopeful that progress can be salvaged.

Treatment combines existing drug with antibodies from hyper-immune reptile collector, raising both hopes and ethical concerns ...

Burslem’s team used the editors to make changes in five different proteins in live cells. The protein editors needed less ...

The researchers then investigated how the metabolisms of treated mice changed. They found that the effect was caused by ...

Both projects were coordinated by the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), a network of 15 federal agencies that deal ...

The research team experimented with using two LLMs to power AstroAgents — Claude Sonnet 3.5and Gemini 2.0 Flash. They fed ...

The policy prevents the NSF, one of the world’s biggest supporters of basic research, from awarding new research grants and ...

A new policy from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) will end billions of dollars of funding to laboratories and ...