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Survey of hundreds of scientists’ work suggests that cutting off funding disrupts focus and reduces the novelty of research.

A small tweak to a common enzyme gives plants the ability to make smelly sulfurous molecules.

US agency guidelines nix funding for studies on climate anxiety and more but allow it for those on extreme weather and health.

Recruiters want to see evidence of your potential to grow and develop, learn from mistakes, and how well you will fit into the team, says entrepreneur Ilana Wisby.

Some data practices can lead to statistically dubious findings. Here’s how to avoid them.

Removal of experienced fish results in younger members not knowing migration routes — plus, how AI companion apps may affect our mental health.

Mutations in RAS enzymes commonly drive cancer. Targeting an overlooked protein complex that works with RAS offers a fresh avenue to cancer therapy.

Five gene clusters have been integrated into the bacterium Vibrio natriegens to engineer a strain that can remediate five organic pollutants — toluene, phenol, naphthalene, biphenyl and dibenzofuran — in industrial waste water and saline soil.

A molecule designed to activate iron locked up in organelles called lysosomes and thereby induce cell death might offer a way to tackle treatment-resistant cancer.

A fluorescence-microscopy method for tracing neuronal connections in the brain could make connectomics studies more widely accessible for neuroscientists.

A report detailing how climate inaction will consign people born today to a lifetime of weather extremes must awaken a sense of responsibility.

By considering the central statement of your entire PhD, you can structure your writing around it, says Tuuli Toivonen.

An executive order suspends the use of federal funds for certain experiments on pathogens with pandemic potential. Critics say low-risk science could be affected too.

Young people will be exposed to a number of heatwaves that no one would have experienced in pre-industrial times.

Former Harvard scientist convicted of making false statements says he wants to do research that benefits humanity — and cannot do that in the United States.

The Advanced Research and Invention Agency is investing £ million to study climate-manipulating technologies, but says it is taking a cautious approach.