Efforts to correct historic undercount of poor, immigrant, rural, and minority populations are at risk, critics say

Researchers say they couldn’t find complete data for 10 trials that together enrolled tens of thousands of children in Guinea-Bissau

Coatings used by symbiotic residents of ant colonies may represent an evolutionary dead end

Kanzi, a bonobo studied for his language skills, understood make-believe objects

Finerenone boosts ovary function in mice and appears to help people with primary ovarian insufficiency produce mature eggs

Team in China sends data with entangled atoms, neutralizing backdoor hardware threats

New energy-absorbing designs and materials have revolutionized the iconic safety device

New data detail how tiny forms of life rebounded much more quickly than previously believed

Developed by and for academics, OpenScholar aims to improve searches of the ballooning scientific literature

Ditching ghrelin genes may have helped a wide variety of reptiles deal with a boom-or-bust feeding schedule

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle decry disruptions to biomedical research under Jay Bhattacharya

Shed from the surfaces of astrocytes, “zombosomes” flit between cells, carrying proteins linked to disease

Recent winter storm traced the path of an emerging ice corridor

The shots fell short during a massive outbreak on a French island. A new vaccine may be safer

Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell, king of congressional earmarks, steers $165 million to his alma maters

Vast undersea eruptions may be undercounted source of extinctions through Earth’s history

Amid travel bans, a government shutdown, and funding crunches, 2025 was a turbulent year for U.S. scientific societies

Research council to slash funding for particle physics, nuclear physics, and astronomy by 30%, prompting alarm across the research community

Trains may be transporting cobras and other venomous snakes to new parts of the country

With sea ice dwindling, the massive predators are relying more on land-based food sources such as reindeer

Shields and biological countermeasures could help protect astronauts during prolonged missions beyond Earth's magnetic bubble

Long-overlooked Kepler signal discovered by citizen scientists reveals promising world worth a closer look

512-million-year-old marine fossils highlight life and death at the Cambrian explosion’s close

Science chats with an ecologist about the advantages of using discarded carcasses for research