Group behind Retraction Watch aims to pinpoint the most influential flawed health data.

Graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and science laboratory leaders are reeling after an announcement last week that ...

Delegates to a United Nations meeting on neurotechnology ethics have devised the first set of global guidelines on ...

Live-animal markets are a natural laboratory for viruses to evolve and spark deadly outbreaks, yet scientists lack support to ...

Automated programs gathering training data for artificial-intelligence tools are overwhelming academic websites.

A clinical trial using engineered immune cells to hunt cancer cells has reported impressive results for solid tumours, a type ...

The erosion of trust in public institutions is a pressing problem for governments. It hinders their ability to respond to ...

Most proteins are left-handed, but scientists have found an ancient molecule that works in both mirror-image forms.

Massive study of nearly 26 million research papers measures the consequences of striking out in another research area.

Manufacturing CAR T cells in the laboratory is expensive and time-consuming. An in vivo approach could get the powerful ...

Photographer Petr Horálek observed both a lunar eclipse and a galaxy of stars from the the US National Science Foundation’s ...

Shuttle-based therapies are under active development for an array of brain conditions. “It’s now abundantly clear that we can ...