Kathleen Williams wants Montana voters to help her restore civility and science By Jeffrey MervisOct. 22, 2018 Democratic nominee runs on health care and making Congress work better
Mel Hall hopes data-driven career will take him to Congress By Jeffrey MervisOct. 19, 2018 Democratic challenger in Indiana eschews labels in race against incumbent
A revolutionary treatment for allergies to peanuts and other foods is going mainstream—but do the benefits outweigh the risks? By Jennifer Couzin-FrankelOct. 18, 2018 Eating small but increasing doses of peanuts seems to protect children with peanut allergies, but the therapy comes with risks and unknowns
Lauren Underwood runs on progressive values in seeking House seat By Jeffrey MervisOct. 18, 2018 Democratic nominee takes on conservative incumbent in Illinois race
Outsider takes helm at Indian research giant By Pallava BaglaOct. 17, 2018 Structural biologist Shekhar Mande becomes new head of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
Why is a remote Colombian town a hot spot of an inherited intellectual disability? By Hannah Furfaro, SpectrumOct. 10, 2018 Researchers are studying a village full of people with fragile X syndrome to understand how it causes autism and other cognitive and health problems
Was cancer scientist fired for challenging lab chief over authorship? By Meredith WadmanOct. 9, 2018 Rutgers University researcher denies claims that she violated animal care policies
Nobel Prize for the economics of innovation and climate change stirs controversy By Adrian ChoOct. 8, 2018 Critics assail the emphasis on economic growth as the solution to the climate crisis
Leon Lederman, father of ‘the God particle,’ dies By Adrian ChoOct. 3, 2018 Nobel Prize–winning physicist found that neutrinos come in more than one flavor
‘Revolution based on evolution’ honored with chemistry Nobel By Gretchen VogelOct. 3, 2018 Frances Arnold, George Smith, and Gregory Winter used Darwin’s principles to create useful molecules
U.K. scientists ‘are going to be all right,’ after Brexit, science minister promises By Eric HandOct. 2, 2018 Sam Gyimah says the United Kingdom will remain the go-to place for science and innovation
Turning lasers into versatile tools earns trio Nobel Prize in Physics By Daniel Clery, Adrian ChoOct. 2, 2018 Discoveries focused laser light into tweezers and boosted it into short, powerful bursts
Cancer immunotherapy pioneers win medicine Nobel By Gretchen Vogel, Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, et al.Oct. 1, 2018 James Allison and Tasuku Honjo found ways to remove the “brakes” that prevent the immune system from attacking tumor cells
To overcome decades of mistrust, a workshop aims to train Indigenous researchers to be their own genome experts By Lizzie WadeSep. 27, 2018 Week-long program brings a sorely needed Indigenous perspective to science
Skepticism surrounds renowned mathematician’s attempted proof of 160-year-old hypothesis By Frankie SchembriSep. 24, 2018 The Riemann hypothesis, a formula related to the distribution of prime numbers, has remained unsolved for more than a century
Testing and cleaning North Carolina’s water supply post-Florence could prove tricky. A microbiologist explains why By Frankie SchembriSep. 21, 2018 Unfamiliar contaminants and lag time in testing methods could increase health risks to locals