A man in a lab coat bends under a dim light, his strained eyes riveted onto a microscope. He's powered only by caffeine and anticipation. This solitary scientist will stay on task until he unveils the ...

US science agencies have begun releasing their plans to comply with US President Donald Trump’s call for ‘gold-standard science’. The plans mainly detail efforts towards achieving widely supported ...

We all have goals, but at least some of the difference in achieving those goals comes down to how you frame them. Why does the difference matter? Compared with people who set avoidance goals, people ...

The ‘open science’ concept is gaining more followers, not least through the efforts of the cultural organization UNESCO. Over the past several years, the organization has been consulting on how ...

NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps doing research on the ISS. NASA is working on a strategy to respond to a biological and physical sciences decadal survey, balancing that report's goals with expected ...

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