Conservation groups welcome aspects of the largely voluntary packaging and recycling targets but warn regulation will be necessary.

The total number of butterflies west of the Rockies has fallen 1.6% a year since 1977, a study finds: "You extrapolate it and it's crazy."

The intervention was the earliest action yet known in an effort by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo that concealed how many nursing home residents died in the pandemic.

We've discovered neurons in CLIP that respond to the same concept whether presented literally, symbolically, or conceptually.

International study finds change in attitudes possibly driven by anticipated regret of not having vaccine.

"It almost seems like a magical thing," said one of the astronomers involved in studying the lunar phenomenon.

The National Institutes of Health will fund researchers to track people's recovery, and will host a biospecimen bank.

This newsletter takes a closer look at the effect of measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 among the participants of the CTC surveys in fall 2020.

A warming atmosphere is causing a branch of the ocean's powerful Gulf Stream to weaken, some scientists fear.

Effort found four drugs had little benefit, now on hold until new drugs are chosen to test.

The Dance Your Ph.D. contest has been challenging scientists to explain their research through dance for 14 years now. The competition got a new COVID-19 category this year.

M.I.T. researchers have devised a virtual-reality technique that lets them read old letters that were mailed not in envelopes but in the writing paper itself after being folded into elaborate enclosures.

UK researchers find link between regular meat intake and nine non-cancerous illnesses.

B.1.351 may sound sweet to a molecular epidemiologist, but what's the alternative, other than stigmatizing geographical names?

Payment advocates expect quicker, better reviews but opponents fear unsustainable costs.

Advanced Research & Innovation Agency will be exempt from existing procurement rules for 'maximum flexibility', says government

The Einstein Foundation funds science and research of top international calibre in Berlin.

The American Physical Society's new criteria for conference venues seem to be unique among scientific societies.

The next phase of the Executable Research Article project will focus on reducing barriers to the authoring and publication of reproducible research papers.