Anna Wallingford started a YouTube channel, where she shares “really nerdy” insights about agriculture research literature. She also has a podcast, where she talks with food growers and academics ...

Welcome to Science Social, The Scientist's new monthly newsletter dedicated to the life sciences community, featuring stories that go beyond the bench. Each month, we’ll cover the social aspects of ...

Federally-funded research has been the backbone of innovations in technology and drug discovery, with 354 of 356 drugs approved by the FDA between 2010 and 2019 having come from federally-funded ...

Awschalom and Maurer emphasized that the tenacity of the students on the team was vital to the success of the project. "Research projects often take multiple years, and the outcomes are far from ...

Academic researchers are worried that the government’s plans to stop investing in the development of messenger RNA vaccines, a technology university scientists first used to help develop the COVID-19 ...

The US National Institutes of Health launched the Autism Data Science Initiative (ADSI), a research effort that will provide $50 million in funding for 13 research projects studying how interactions ...

A groundbreaking microscope at Harvard Medical School could lead to breakthroughs in cancer detection and research into longevity. But the scientist who developed computer scripts to read its images ...

We are pleased to announce our participation in the newly funded interdisciplinary project DIDI ("Different groups, different ...

An illustration shows three scientists in lab coats kneeling, pushing up against a molecular model looming over them. The atom they are pushing on is red and is connected to an orange ball that ...

Tara McKay was home on the last night in February when she received an email that made her doubt — if only for a moment — the worthiness of her career. It was a message from a branch of the National ...