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Government researchers are barred from their own labs during the shutdown, and they cannot travel to conferences

23andMe says it has no plans to pursue concepts discussed in its patent for a method to predict a baby's traits based on its parents' DNA

The ERC's support provides a taste of what may be to come for the arXiv, including more financial support for the web site by other research funders and publishers

A test vaccine has been found to be protective against a synthetic version of the H5N1 virus, but the result might not predict performance on real pandemic H5N1

France Anne Cordova served as president of Purdue University from 2007 to 2012, and oversaw the creation of the Colombia–Purdue Institute for Scientific Research

Earth is a tiny blue dot in a photograph taken by the probe on July 19 when the sun was eclipsed by the gas giant

The Chilean poet had prostate cancer in an advanced state, with extended metastasis, according to an analysis of his remains

The UK's chief scientific advisor warns that the moratorium could harm the continent's crop production, but environmental groups pronounced the two-year ban a victory

Wallace, who came up with the concept of evolution by natural selection independently of Charles Darwin, had the house built in 1872 in Grays, England. The naturalist is said to have lived in the house for about four years

Detectors at the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search have recorded three events that may represent collisions from weakly interacting massive particles

The president of the Society for Neuroscience asked its members to stay positive about a multibillion project to record all the brain's neurons in action, but some psychologists have called foul on this scientific advocacy

The agency's approval of the first seasonal flu vaccine made of recombinant proteins rather than inactivated or weakened virus comes as emergency rooms are clogged with victims of an early and severe flu season

The president issued a memorandum directing the CDC and other public-health agencies to conduct or sponsor research into the causes of gun violence and the ways to prevent it, doing an end-run around congressional moves for several years to muzzle such efforts

Aaron Swartz faced an imminent trial for having downloaded some four million articles from a not-for-profit scholarly archive, and a possible penalty of 35 years in prison and a $1-million fine, which some call disproportionate to his actions

70 puppies were released after activists alerted the Indian government that the animals had been falsely described as "pets" by a contract organization seeking to import them

Conditions in the Arctic, where several environmental records were broken this year, are slipping rapidly from bad to worse as the pace of climate change accelerates in that region

If stem cell tools can make drug development more efficient, it could arrest the decline of industry funding in neurological conditions, where drug development has proved especially expensive and tricky

A continent-wide survey combined GIS, remote-sending and ape population data on a large scale to show that gorilla habitats have shrunk for many gorilla subspecies

Known as the "iron man," a 24-centimeter-high sculpture was likely created from a piece of the Chinga meteorite that was strewn across the border region between Russia and Mongolia between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago

A new Research Councils U.K. policy encourages researchers to shun science journals that prohibit authors from following the six-month post-publication mandate

The discovery of an apparent DNA-RNA hybrid virus blurs the boundaries between two major groups, and shows that recombination could be an important route of virus evolution

The former chief seismologist for the state's DOT criticized Italy's top earthquake experts, saying they were conscious of the high risk in the area and failed to advise residents

The latest analyses from the Large Hadron Collider boost the case for the particle's existence, but there's no new data

Some lab-bred GM mosquitoes can survive in the wild, green groups say, but the bug-maker calls that assertion 'inaccurate'