Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed turned his weird science into a stepping stone, exploiting identity politics in academia to fast-track and fund his journey to Congress, according ...

Football fans were placed in brain scanners to study schadenfreude. Fans' reward centres lit up when rival fans got electric ...

People who believe conspiracy theories tend to overestimate how many others share their views. New research suggests that ...

Penn State Berks professors Sarah Princiotta and Justin DiAngelo are taking an interdisciplinary approach to study algal ...

In 2016, the HBO comedian and political commentator John Oliver produced a terrific segment on how TV pundits routinely cite ...

Introduction: The Barrier of Publicly Demonstrating Research ResultsEven after developing an excellent research algorithm, ...

A small case–control study found lower gut microbial diversity, differences in bacterial abundance and metabolomic changes in ...

A targeted-sequencing case-control study of 50 people found that one CCR2 variant was more frequent in the sarcoidosis group, ...

New research suggests the same personality traits associated with toxic corporate leaders today may have been present at the very birth of global capitalism 400 years ago.

Taxonomic bias in ecology research is emotional, not logistical -- a survey of 868 animal behavior researchers shows ...

Analysing national research systems by using open-access data and new methods can help countries to learn from each other.

Edward III should be added to the canon of plays by William Shakespeare, first of its kind research has revealed.