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Debate highlights broader concerns about tools that use the results of direct-to-consumer genetic testing.

In an experiment to boost transparency, the preprint server will allow select journals and independent peer-review services to publicly post evaluations of its papers should the authors make the request.

The Nobel was awarded jointly to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino "for the development of lithium-ion batteries."

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 was awarded to James Peebles "for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology" and jointly to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz "for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star."

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2019 was awarded jointly to William G. Kaelin Jr, Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza "for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability."

This opinion piece argues that humans’ prowess at endurance running has little to do with our ancestors’ quest for meat.

Katarzyna Mickiewicz, a Newcastle University research fellow, describes his experiments that prove that bacteria can change shape with no genetic changes.

Leaked details about Google's quantum supremacy experiment stirred up a media frenzy about the next quantum computing milestone.

For the last year, Jessica Wynne, a photographer and professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, has been photographing mathematicians’ blackboards, finding art in the swirling gangs of symbols sketched in the heat of imagination, argument and speculation.

The flows inside cells are intricate and often counterintuitive. Measurements, models, and simulations are helping to unravel the complexities.