With everyday life looking more and more like it did before anyone ever heard of COVID-19, our list of the year’s top retractions—this is our tenth for The Scientist—doesn’t include any ...

From sham surgeries to sugar pills, the placebo effect can work as well as real medicine, but the body relies on input from ...

Venter led the private effort to sequence the human genome and created the first synthetic bacterial cell while launching ...

In 1893, Georg Schmorl, a pathologist at the University of Leipzig, made an astonishing discovery during his studies of eclampsia, a serious complication of pregnancy. At the time, eclampsia was one ...

Welcome to Words for Nerds, our popular and addictive daily science word game. Think of it as science Wordle—a guessing jumble for every nerd, especially the busy life scientist looking to get a ...

University of Buffalo postdoctoral researcher Kasturika Shankar discusses how HPV hijacks cellular protein-making machinery ...

Christophe Leterrier uses advanced microscopy to uncover neurons’ intricate nanostructure and dynamics while creating ...

In medieval times, long before there were bathrooms in private homes, bathing was a social affair. Visitors to Dutch and German bathhouses in the late Middle Ages emerged from such spaces cleansed of ...

G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are expressed on the surface of cells and regulate a range of important functions. Because they are involved in so many sensory and physiological processes, ...

The Scientist’s Top 10 Innovations contest is back. This year we took nominations for cutting-edge products launched between January 2023 and July 2024. The results showcased emerging trends in basic, ...

Regular surveillance and rapid sequencing in coastal wildlife help researchers identify viral mutations and assess their ...

At AACR 2026, scientists showcased advances in radiotherapeutics, antibody-drug conjugates, T cell engagers, and ...