An analysis of 97 million citations has found that rates of fabricated citations have climbed steeply since 2023.

Chantle Edillor used a fascination with sourdough starters to pivot from studying human diseases to exploring yeast-based ...

Virologist Jay Hooper is developing a vaccine for the rare rodent virus behind an outbreak on a cruise ship. An outbreak of ...

Analysis of papers from millions of scientists shows that older researchers tend to stick with ideas from their past.

Prosecutors in Florida have launched a criminal investigation into the artificial-intelligence company OpenAI, and whether the company’s chatbot ChatGPT was used to assist the suspect in a mass school ...

Digital distractions are vying for people’s focus, but our underlying capacity to pay attention seems to be undiminished.

A new climate coalition to steer the transition away from fossil fuels is good news, but it must avoid undermining existing ...

People given general anaesthesia fall into a coma-like state in which their memory and perception of pain are switched off.

The human genome contains around 20,000 genes that hold instructions for making working proteins, as most genetic databases ...

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The safety evidence from TRAVERSE refers to men with confirmed low testosterone levels — below 300 nanograms per decilitre of ...

The group of rodent viruses can cause disease in humans, but cases are rare.