Publishers often charge authors to publish their publicly-funded research. Will a federal crackdown make a difference?

The lung float test has been used determine if a baby was born alive or not. Experts say it has "questionable value." ...

Farmers blame a food additive required by the Danish government to cut methane emissions, but the source is unclear.

The owner of a rescued lab dog considers if insights gleaned through animal research are enough to justify the practice.

Following the species' comeback, new pressures are converging on their wintering habitat along the Texas coast.

The Ennedi rock art of Chad should not be read as decoration alone, but as a visual narrative of environmental change.

A political feud and a drive to end climate research has put the National Center for Atmospheric Research at risk.

It's the nation's largest multi-program science and technology laboratory. But nuclear science is its history — and its future.

In late November, the Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine regulator, Vinay Prasad, made headlines with an email to his staff announcing that the agency had linked the Covid-19 shots to the ...

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