The National Science Foundation’s rules for reporting harassment by grant recipients are the strictest yet instituted by a US government science agency.

The US Food and Drug Administration is proposing heavy fines for pharmaceutical companies that fail to report clinical trial results online.

How voltage readings from individual neurons could power the next revolution in neuroscience.

Bones and artefacts suggest that kids laboured at skilled tasks thousands of years ago.

Fossils of ancient sea creatures answer a long-standing question about how animals became bigger and more complex.

Climate policy advice is being undermined by value-laden choices over risky mitigation strategies, warn our columnists this week.

Update of century-old chemical reaction could produce kerosene from biomass.

The science that bought us superconductivity, superfluidity, magnetic memory, liquid-crystal displays and more is put under the microscope in Joseph D. Martin's 'Solid State Insurrection'

Collaboration across institutes can train students in open, team science, which better prepares them for challenges to come, says our columnist this week.

"Gummy squirrels," single-celled organisms the size of softballs and strange worms thrive in a Pacific Ocean zone some considered an underwater desert.

More than four million people still die each year from exposure to polluted outside air.

Brian Wansink will retire at the end of the academic year, according to Cornell University.

Necessity is the mother of invention...

"With a bit of creative thinking, we can overcome some of the pitfalls of the current model when it comes to training the next generation to do quantitative experimental research."

Japan’s asteroid mission Hayabusa2 has successfully dispatched its first two rovers to the surface of its target space rock Ryugu.