Studies suggest benefits as well as harms from digital companion apps — but scientists worry about long-term dependency.

Bringing together proponents of rival theories to test their ideas against each other can advance science — but only if all ...

Team scoops US$60,000 prize for identifying a Greek work on vices from scans of a 2,000-year-old papyrus charred by volcanic ...

There’s no mystery to innovation and economic growth; the US must nurture its scientists or find out the hard way.

Most people need around eight hours of sleep each night to function, but a rare genetic condition allows some to thrive on as ...

Survey of thousands of young people shows that those with mental health conditions spend more time on social-networking sites ...

Treatment combines existing drug with antibodies from hyper-immune reptile collector, raising both hopes and ethical concerns ...

Burslem’s team used the editors to make changes in five different proteins in live cells. The protein editors needed less ...

Huge reductions, if enacted, could have ‘catastrophic’ effects on US competitiveness and the scientific pipeline, critics say ...

An ambitious plan to stop the global threat of AIDS has been derailed. But many are hopeful that progress can be salvaged.

Both projects were coordinated by the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), a network of 15 federal agencies that deal ...

The researchers then investigated how the metabolisms of treated mice changed. They found that the effect was caused by ...