A mystery interstellar object discovered last week is likely to be the oldest comet ever seen – possibly predating our solar system by more than three billion years, researchers say. The "water ...

Is Cape Town hiding its water woes? An explosive UCT-led study has alleged that the city routinely downplays pollution, manipulating scientific data.

Scientists are crucial voices in the public debate about wicked problems—societal-scale, high-stakes issues with no clear ...

A global study led by researchers at the School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, has found that ...

In a historic move, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced today that it will no longer seek research ...

Microplastics research faces standardization challenges as viral headlines about "plastic in your brain" overshadow ...

A study in the journal Science presents compelling new evidence that neurons in the brain's memory centre, the hippocampus, ...

Scientists in Sweden led the study, published Thursday in Science. They found abundant signs of neural stem cells growing in ...

How can we decrease the amount of shoddy science and improve the rigor of research in the behavioral sciences?

Efforts have been underway for years to improve the replicability of research studies, but some are skeptical of the US government’s motivations to help ...

Aston University biostatistician Dr. Dan Green has identified the top ten errors he commonly sees in research papers in his ...

Most treatments for Parkinson's disease (PD) only slow disease progression. Early intervention for the neurological disease that worsens over time is therefore critical to optimize care, but that ...