A record of scientific ambition at its worst and best, where progress, power and ethics collided and changed global rules ...

Some human research will no longer be classified as a clinical trial, easing the paperwork burden, but not everyone agrees with the approach.

Social scientists have long run audit experiments to transport lab standards to the field. Researchers might send largely identical résumés to recruiters, or credit reports to bankers, varying only ...

Yuri Ralchenko led one of the oldest teams at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The fate of some experiments hangs in the air. Lost Science Yuri Ralchenko led one of the oldest teams ...

Scientists say that findings from a small experiment lend hope the outbreak among dairy cattle can potentially be contained. By Carl Zimmer Ever since scientists discovered influenza infecting ...