Medical Journal Editors Don’t Disclose Their Own Conflicts of Interest

Half of U.S. editors have industry ties | Continue reading


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Embryo-inspired bandage is 17 times stickier than a Band-Aid

Material draws broken skin together like a purse string | Continue reading


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Mexico’s new president shocks scientists with budget cuts and attacks

Austerity measures restrict travel and equipment maintenance | Continue reading


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If this type of dark matter existed, people would be dying of unexplained wounds

Study proposes new way to detect mysterious substance | Continue reading


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Chimpanzees grow closer when they watch a movie together

Finding suggests that, like us, chimps revel in shared experiences | Continue reading


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Trilayer graphene shows signs of superconductivity

Triple sheets of carbon atoms may help solve the mystery of high-temperature superconductivity | Continue reading


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Gorillas have developed humanlike social structure, controversial study suggests

Finding challenges when complex hierarchies arose in great apes | Continue reading


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Hungry elephants fight climate change one mouthful at a time

The megamunchers change forest ecosystems to store more carbon over hundreds of years | Continue reading


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Giant batteries and cheap solar power are shoving fossil fuels off the grid

Cost of solar power has dropped by 76% since 2012 | Continue reading


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Starving children often don’t recover. Restoring gut bacteria could help

Most of the new experiments were in animals, but a small group of malnourished children improved | Continue reading


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Courting controversy, scientists team with industry to tackle oil palm

Growing number of researchers say it’s time to make the best of a bad situation | Continue reading


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Western mind too WEIRD to study

Psychologist says research relies on too many participants from Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic societies | Continue reading


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Are dinosaur fossils minerals? Montana Supreme Court to decide high stakes case

Paleontologists are closely watching lawsuit over ownership of "dueling dinosaurs" | Continue reading


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Ploonets are real. Now, we might be able to find them

Researchers say the search for these exomoons may be possible with telescopes | Continue reading


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A secretive group of Cold War scientists are fighting to survive

After near-death experience, top scientists seek a long-term home in the U.S. government | Continue reading


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Adding 1B hectares of forest could help check global warming

Trees could remove two-thirds of human-caused emissions | Continue reading


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Former playwright aims to turn solar and wind power into gasoline

Silicon Valley investors back experimental machine, which still needs to prove its economic worth | Continue reading


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How to evaluate computers that don’t quite exist?

Developers debate way to measure the power of quantum computers | Continue reading


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Space station mold survives 200 times the radiation dose that would kill a human

New study suggests that fungi are an overlooked interplanetary contamination threat | Continue reading


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FDA Enforcement Actions Plummet

FDA actions that safeguard clinical trials, food and drug safety in steep decline, Science investigation reveals | Continue reading


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New solar technology could produce clean drinking water for millions in need

Solar still produces 12 times the clean water of commercial versions | Continue reading


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NASA will fly nuclear-powered quadcopter on Titan

Dragonfly mission will search for the primordial ingredients of life | Continue reading


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Struggling with your academic writing? Try these experiments

Our Letters to Young Scientists columnists offer some ideas for developing good writing habits | Continue reading


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How to evaluate computers that don’t quite exist

Developers debate way to measure the power of quantum computers | Continue reading


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North Korea claimed to be free of HIV. But infections appear to be surging

Report flags drug abuse and tainted blood donations as factors in virus’s spread | Continue reading


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It’s OK to Quit Your PhD

Former students recount their experiences dropping out | Continue reading


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Watch AI predict Conan O’Brien’s gestures just from the sound of his voice

Advance could lead to more realistic robots | Continue reading


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Countries that trust scientists the most–and the least

Trust in scientists highest in Northern Europe, Wellcome Global Monitor finds | Continue reading


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AI could revolutionize medical care. But don’t trust it to read your x-ray yet

Algorithms can underperform when they leave their home hospital | Continue reading


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Psychologist explains why people confess to crimes they didn’t commit

Ingenious experiments have shown how standard police questioning applies psychological pressure | Continue reading


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Emory scientist was told to vacate as reprisal for activism on Asian ties

University says relocation plans are not connected to scientist’s letter or nationality | Continue reading


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Type A Blood Converted to Universal Donor Blood with Help from Bacterial Enzyme

Approach could revolutionize blood donation and transfusion | Continue reading


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Experimental drug delays onset of T1 diabetes

Two-week course of antibody therapy holds off disease for an average of 2 years | Continue reading


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Racial and gender biases plague postdoc hiring

Changing the name on a CV affects how physics and biology faculty members view theoretical applicants, according to a new study | Continue reading


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Medical preprint server (medRxiv) debuts

Hosted by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, The BMJ, and Yale University, medRxiv will invite clinical researchers to share unreviewed manuscripts | Continue reading


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Study of marathon runners reveals a ‘hard limit’ on human endurance

Pregnancy is as metabolically taxing as an ultramarathon | Continue reading


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Controversial U.S. bill would lift Supreme Court ban on patenting human genes

Backers say changes needed to spur innovation, but critics disagree | Continue reading


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Watch an elephant ‘count’ simply by using its sense of smell

Asian elephants can discriminate food quantities using only their trunk | Continue reading


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Nanoparticles awaken immune cells to fight cancer (2017)

In mice, new approach wipes out targeted tumor and metastases as well | Continue reading


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Why modern humans have round heads (2018)

Researchers find genes linked to head shape—by tracking traces of Neanderthal DNA in living people | Continue reading


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Researchers strapped video cameras on 16 cats and let them do their thing

Science chats with the researcher behind a new attempt to record cats when they’re on their own | Continue reading


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Researchers strapped cameras on 16 cats and let them do their thing [video]

Science chats with the researcher behind a new attempt to record cats when they’re on their own | Continue reading


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Nasa selects three companies to lead its robotic return to moon

Small commercial landings could occur as soon as next year | Continue reading


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Artificial intelligence learns teamwork in a deadly game of capture the flag

Bots’ new strategies for beating Quake could one day help smart machines work with humans | Continue reading


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House spending panel drops U.S. ban on gene-edited babies

Change would allow the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to consider controversial treatments | Continue reading


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IEEE, a major science publisher, bans Huawei scientists from reviewing papers

Move prompted by U.S. trade sanctions against Chinese company | Continue reading


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A wave of graduate programs drop the GRE application requirement

Amid concerns about diversity and the test’s predictive value, an increasing number of science Ph.D. programs are joining the "GRExit" movement, according to our investigation | Continue reading


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May be the world’s first images of dogs–and they’re wearing leashes – Science

Saudi find may reveal how humans harnessed early dogs to survive | Continue reading


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