For decades, scientific knowledge has been firmly shut behind the lock and key of eye-wateringly expensive journal paywalls. But in recent years a tide has been turning against the rigid, antiquated ...

A man in a winter hat and wearing blue plastic gloves holds a plastic sample cup and pointed tool near a shelf-like fungus growing on the side of a mossy tree in a forest. A researcher collecting ...

The United States has mobilized the full force of its clinical research enterprise to address the Covid-19 pandemic, allocating billions of dollars to support timely research. As of January 2021, for ...

The Science Partner Journal (SPJ) program is pleased to announce that the first journal it launched, Research, has received its inaugural Journal Impact Factor, 11.036, ranking it #10 among 73 ...

What motivated you to launch the Night Science podcast? Yanai: There's some kind of stigma, bias, or cultural norms against discussing this creative side of the research process. I think it's because ...

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As we age, our cells don’t just wear down—they reorganize. Researchers found that cells actively remodel a key structure called the endoplasmic reticulum, reducing protein-producing regions while ...

A committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will produce a revised, expanded, and online version of On Being a Scientist: A Guide to the Responsible Conduct of ...

Purdue University’s 10-year capital plan, which was reviewed and approved by trustees on Aug. 2, includes an Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Research Building project on the university’s West ...

Letting an AI assistant handle the hard parts of thinking feels efficient in the moment, but a growing body of cognitive science research suggests that convenience comes at a measurable cost. When ...