A levitating frog, a necrophiliac duck, taxi drivers’ brains — the Ig Nobel prizes have shined a spotlight on offbeat work.

The University of Rochester has confirmed that it no longer employs Ranga Dias, who was found by investigators to have ...

The US president-elect says he will pull the country out of international treaties and partnerships. That need not lead to ...

The largest scholarly search engine is celebrating its 20th birthday, but AI-driven competitors offer advantages.

Long-lasting changes to the cells’ epigenome are linked to a decline in their function. Even after drastic weight loss, the ...

As the country forges global partnerships to boost its space ambitions, concerns mount over funding and private-sector ...

Scientists release first analyses of samples from China’s Chang’e-6 mission, which landed on the lunar far side.

Scientists have detected resistance to artemisinin, a key malaria drug, for the first time among children in Africa with ...

The world’s largest public funder of biomedical research seems poised for a major overhaul in the next few years.

Noack and his engineers have therefore been turning to robotics and automation to speed up the process of growing ...

In the long term, increased carbon dioxide reduces the number of plant species by worsening the effects of nitrogen pollution ...

Confidence that scientists will make decisions in the public interest nosedived at the onset of the pandemic but has now ...