If we cut or limit funding for curiosity-driven research, we risk shutting down the pipeline of future innovation,” writes ...

For the first time researchers demonstrate in an animal how heavy alcohol use leads to long-term behavioral issues by damaging brain circuits critical for decision-making.

After years of rebranding cruelty with creative flair, word has it that Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) is about ...

When the truth came out in the 1990s, it horrified human rights organizations around the world. The total number of victims ...

Scientists created transgenic mice with woolly mammoth–like traits. But does it really bring us closer to bringing back woolly mammoths?

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In the U.S. last year, surgeons at the University of Pennsylvania attempted that sort of “bridge” support by externally attaching a pig liver to a brain-dead human body to filter blood, much like ...

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In 2018, a discovery in materials science sent shock waves throughout the community. A team showed that stacking two layers of graphene—a honeycomb-like layer of carbon extracted from graphite ...

The box plot facility in Großbeeren hosted one of the world's longest fertilization experiments with vegetables. From 1972 to 2022, data were collected and have now been published by researchers ...

Young minds at Draycott & Rodney Stoke First School in Cheddar were treated to a hands-on lesson in sustainability and science during British Science Week. The school welcomed Gary from Carymoor ...

"Animal experiments are really hard to reproduce because it's hard to get the animal to do what you want to do." Experiments with robot physical models, by contrast, "are completely repeatable.