Research

Through his attacks on those government expenditures he deems frivolous, the Arizona senator exposes the counterproductive nature of his own belt-tightening mission.

• By James McWilliams

Nevertheless, scientists see some progress on the problem of reproducibility.

• By Francie Diep

A systemic review presents damning evidence that journalists are overselling research.

• By James McWilliams

This area of the Atlantic has been known as a nursery for the apex predator for decades, but no one has attempted to study these sharks' movements—until now.

• By Erik Hoffner

New research predicts that audits would reduce the number of false positive results from 30.2 per 100 papers to 12.3 per 100.

• By Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Marine researchers are hoping to uncover what is drawing the sharks to an open stretch of ocean in the Pacific known as "White Shark Cafe."

• By Alastair Bland

Before self-driving cars begin appearing on our roadways, we need to ensure that they can cope with the potential hazards of driving alongside other vehicles.

• By Srikanth Saripalli

Through the use of stem cell-based organoids researchers are making big strides in the study of neurodevelopmental diseases such as schizophrenia and autism.

• By Yewande Pearse

Empathy could play a larger role in dividing us than previously thought.

• By Prabarna Ganguly

Researchers are having a tough time figuring out how safe autonomous vehicles are compared to their human-operated counterparts.

• By Peter Hancock

Researchers have discovered a new organism that has no known evolutionary relatives, causing them to reconsider how genes evolve.

• By Melanie Silvis

Two biologists are working on a moonshot project to identify and map every cell inside of us.

• By Josh Peters

Alkahest is performing patient trials to see if injecting plasma into Alzheimer's patients can mitigate the effects of the disease.

• By Gregory Logan-Graf

Find your purpose, forgive yourself for slip-ups, and have someone gently prod you.

• By Francie Diep

New research shows that those who suffered significant trauma at a young age are unable to correctly consider risk as adults.

• By Mimi Kirk

Current treatments involve targeting and killing specific cancer cells, but new research points to the efficacy of an ecological approach to curing the disease.

• By Josh Peters

Medicine, history, and rare age disorders are reshaping the way researchers view the process of aging, and it may extend lives for decades.

• By Ana Gorelova

Statisticians have shown that many scientific findings are wrong, and without an increase in statistical know-how for scientists it'll continue happening.

• By Irineo Cabreros

Researchers in Tokyo discovered a strain of herpes contained in a "jumping gene" found in fish and humans—the implications are still unknown.

• By Dan Samorodnitsky

A new study investigates the effects that well-lit structures have on migratory birds.

• By John Metcalfe

Using drugs at a young age can permanently modify your brain chemistry, but researchers are working to change that.

• By Lauren Mackenzie Reynolds

Fish can change their DNA in response to contamination, but it's still unclear how our bodies cope with the issue.

• By Anna Robuck

Do we get our cognitive abilities from our inherited "nature" or from our environment's "nurture?"

• By Daniel Bear

Rather than a single bacterial magic bullet, imagine instead a future that involves microbial concoctions tailor-made to your microbiome fingerprint to help restore equilibrium.

• By Namrata Iyer