The far side of the Moon is something of an enigma. Always facing away from Earth, its evolutionary history has remained as obscure as its appearance. That ...

Research-integrity sleuths worry that their work is being used out of context to discredit long-held scientific knowledge. Plus, ancient proteins rewrite the evolutionary history of rhinos and a ...

Some studies containing instructions in white text or small font — visible only to machines — will be withdrawn from preprint servers.

Lunar history The far side of the Moon is something of an enigma. Always facing away from Earth, its evolutionary history has remained as obscure as its appearance. That was, until last year, when ...

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As was realized after the Second World War, peace and prosperity stem from partnership and sustained investment in human development ...

The scale of funding cuts in the United States means that countless scientists will lose their jobs. It would be naive not to start thinking about alternative career paths ...

After a quarter of a century, the website remains an essential tool for navigating the genome and understanding its structure, function and clinical impact.

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