The policy would free up between 1,900 and 5,230 grants a year for early- and midcareer researchers, according to the NIH, ...

C&EN used artificial intelligence in the development of this game, but all the questions and answers were checked by one of ...

For Australia, one of the world’s largest mining nations, that dynamic has meant exporting raw materials while much of the ...

The treatment, currently designated HTX-001, is an antisense oligonucleotide, or ASO, that targets Wisper and reduces the ...

A tractor sprays pesticide across a green field. Researchers recently gathered at the University of Washington for a symposium to discuss glyphosate’s potential ...

C ommercials for drugs all share one noticeable feature: a long list of side effects that the voice-over must read. The list sometimes can be longer than the rest of the ad, observes Denise Okafor, a ...

Lithium has reigned in the battery world for decades. Researchers have tried for years to make a cheaper, more sustainable successor to lithium-ion batteries by using the element’s more common ...

Aspartame has been sweetening diet soda and other sugar-free products since the 1980s, and its safety seemed established. But that certainty changed in July last year after an arm of the World Health ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency has proposed to remove air emission regulations from plastic pyrolysis plants, also known as chemical or advanced recycling facilities, that break down plastic ...

Northern elephant seal females and pups go through intense cycles of fueling and fasting. Thanks to extremely fatty milk, ...

Five years later, BMW presented a Vantablack-coated concept car whose “black hole” appearance drew widespread attention. But ...

The dataset, which the researchers have made available on the Open Reaction Database, is nearly five times as large as the ...