Although scientists have long been able to gather DNA from water and soil, it's only recently that they've started to see the ...

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Science publishing giant Elsevier has joined a class action lawsuit against Meta that alleges the reproduction of copyrighted ...

The Make America Healthy Again movement asserts that over-prescription of drugs for mental-health conditions is rife in the ...

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In one of the highest-profile battles yet between the US research community and the administration of President Donald Trump, ...

Proposed UN progress indicators include greenhouse gas emissions, life expectancy and children's performance in reading and ...

Digital distractions are vying for people’s focus, but our underlying capacity to pay attention seems to be undiminished.

The group of rodent viruses can cause disease in humans, but cases are rare.

An analysis of 97 million citations has found that rates of fabricated citations have climbed steeply since 2023.