Julie Gould is a freelance journalist in London, and produces the Nature Careers Podcast. Some widely-accepted notions of career planning can be problematic in their ...

The shutdown of the US government, about to enter its third week, is starting to take a toll on US science. Since the shutdown began, the administration of US President Donald Trump has cancelled ...

BEIJING -- China under President Xi Jinping is set to increase basic-research funding as a share of its research and development budget, aiming to cultivate key high-tech industries and expand the ...

Oct. 20 (UPI) --Anthropic on Monday announced a new service called Claude of Life Sciences that uses artificial intelligence in efforts to advance scientific discovery. This is the San Francisco-based ...

Washington ― The U.S. Geological Survey is planning to lay off 79% of the workforce of the Great Lakes Science Center that's headquartered in Ann Arbor as part of a reduction in force across the U.S.

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Last year, a group of researchers won the 2024 Ig Nobel Prize in Physiology for discovering that many mammals are capable of breathing through their anus. But as with many Ig Nobel awards, there is a ...

Arguing that Florida's decision to hold a bear hunt in December is not based on "sound" science and research, a conservation group this week asked a judge for an emergency temporary injunction to halt ...

An international study claims lead was a problem for our ancestors and Homo sapiens might have had a genetic edge over other human species. The research analysed fossilised teeth from different ...

In the 1970s, UCLA housed The Parapsychology Lab, which became a haven for those with psychic abilities and the researchers who studied them.