Scientists across multiple disciplines are raising the alarm after the White House proposed taking greater control over how ...

The United States has mobilized the full force of its clinical research enterprise to address the Covid-19 pandemic, allocating billions of dollars to support timely research. As of January 2021, for ...

New research identifies a process that might have been key in producing the first organic molecules on Earth about 4 billion years ago, before the origin of life. The process, which is similar to what ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Science and technology are embedded in virtually every aspect of modern life. As a ...

A man in a winter hat and wearing blue plastic gloves holds a plastic sample cup and pointed tool near a shelf-like fungus growing on the side of a mossy tree in a forest. A researcher collecting ...

Too often, policy recommendations in climate-related research are either an afterthought or stray too far into advocacy, a ...

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 ...

Purdue University’s 10-year capital plan, which was reviewed and approved by trustees on Aug. 2, includes an Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Research Building project on the university’s West ...

Undergraduate research is part of our DNA. Students can hit the ground running with research projects as early as their first year. The lab and scientific writing skills that undergraduates develop ...

As we age, our cells don’t just wear down—they reorganize. Researchers found that cells actively remodel a key structure called the endoplasmic reticulum, reducing protein-producing regions while ...