The demand for the widely used cancer drug Taxol is increasing, but it's difficult and expensive to produce because it hasn't been possible to do it biosynthetically. Until now, that is. Researchers ...

The International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) was formed in 1992 with the goal of creating global consensus on evidence-based emergency cardiovascular care, cardiopulmonary ...

Drawing on decades of experience in global health and international scientific exchanges, Nobel laureate Peter Agre makes the ...

Companies that broker and facilitate scientific fraud are large, resilient, and growing rapidly, according to a new study. Paper mills don’t usually state the names of journals that papers will be ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Humans have been trying to replace ailing parts of our bodies for thousands of years, turning to prosthetic limbs, ...

Water, though familiar, still hides astonishing secrets. When squeezed into nanosized channels, it can enter a bizarre “premelting state” that is both solid and liquid at once. Using advanced NMR ...

A statistical analysis found that the number of fake journal articles being churned out by “paper mills” is doubling every year and a half. By Carl Zimmer For years, whistle-blowers have warned that ...