In the early 1960s, after studies confirmed that it was linked to congenital disorders in more than 10,000 children, ...

Overturning the 2009 decision will lead to billions of extra tonnes of greenhouse-gas emissions over the next three decades.

But funding proposals to US agencies also tend to be more similar to previously funded projects if they are written or edited ...

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Another complication is how social-media use is evaluated: many studies look only at total amount of time spent on the ...

The work reveals that the brain — in mice and, presumably, in humans — is actively involved in the development of endurance, the ability to get better at a physical activity with repeated practice, ...

Symptoms and organ damage abated in young children and teenagers whose conditions had resisted other treatments.

The upshot is that clean-energy technologies account for the bulk of new energy investments, and that is the first step in ...

Large proportion worked at Columbia University, which had its grants cut and frozen by the administration of US President ...

China’s science ministry will crack down on universities that fail to investigate or sanction researchers who are involved in ...

Geopolitical trends might be heading in the wrong direction, but economic forces are aligning around a future economy centred ...

Large language models (LLMs) can suggest hypotheses, write code and draft papers, and AI agents are automating parts of the research process. Although this can accelerate science, it also makes it ...