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Senate budget bill includes small increase for the health-research agency — but faces a long road before being signed into ...

Having a lot of withdrawn papers will soon count against institutions but some warn the policy could create issues.

Results from early-stage trial show that 80% of participants who received one of two HIV vaccine candidates produced antibodies against viral proteins.

The system will save time spent on processing satellite data, researchers say — but they hope the tech firm will share more ...

Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories in science — and makes much of modern life possible. Technologies ...

Imaging suggests that more than one tattooist applied pigment to the hands and forearms of a woman who lived more than two ...

The immune system senses damage to cell membranes caused by pore-forming proteins and mounts a response. The sneezing, itchy ...

Hidden in the lungs of some breast cancer survivors are tumour cells that can remain dormant for decades — until they one day ...

Sometimes, cancer cells that have spread become ‘dormant’ but can start proliferating again later. A cue that can reactivate ...

Physicists have caught neutrinos from a nuclear reactor using a device weighing just a few kilograms, orders of magnitude ...

Modelling suggests that data collected by JWST will be able to distinguish between planets that are molten to the core and ...