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

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

Having a lot of withdrawn papers will soon count against institutions but some warn the policy could create issues.

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

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

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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 ...

NISAR — which stands for NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar — will use two radar instruments operating at different ...