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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The pointy edges of petals rely on a type of geometric feedback never before seen in nature.

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