Around the world, governments are demanding that research funding follow broader political priorities. They should be careful ...

For more than 70 years, physicians seeking to diagnose mental-health conditions have turned to the ‘bible for psychiatry’ — ...

Scientists and medical experts are countering climate denialism, vaccine scepticism and wellness pseudoscience on social ...

A European project calls for help to verify whether carbon quantum dots are really able to sense chemicals in cells.

Study could help reveal why some mental health disorders vary between men and women — but it's not clear whether the differences are due to sex or gender.

Chinese research organizations can no longer take part in most of the research grants funded by Horizon Europe, the European ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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, ...