Rather than petri dishes or microscopes, in Brie Tripp’s lab you’ll find diverse undergrads gathered around laptops, carrying ...

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America's status as a global science leader is in doubt as the administration freezes funding and targets research that ...

Upheaval within the brain’s higher order network could explain psilocybin users’ feelings of profound connection to the ...

In a study of 12 heterosexual couples, researchers noted the presence of a partner's genital bacteria after sex, even when ...

Panch has been conveniently absent throughout this whole time,” said an internal email an NSF worker sent to fellow ...

Firings at the NSF included permanent employees who had already completed their one-year probationary period, as well as ...

For decades, scientists assumed that life on Earth emerged through a chain of highly improbable flukes. But a new theory suggests it may have instead arrived just in time.

Atomic clocks are more accurate than those used to define the second, suggesting the definition might need to change ...

A core group of so-called disease detectives, who track outbreaks, was apparently spared. But other young researchers are out ...

You may think that time started 13.8 billion years ago at the birth of the universe, but physicists with alternative ...

“What we're seeing now, several years later, is how deep those divisions really are,” said Cary Funk, who previously led ...