Dr. Jennifer Avegno’s cellphone has been blowing up all week, with texts from other parents and colleagues asking, “What the heck? This doesn’t seem right,” she tells Yahoo. The texts are in response ...

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The Trump administration is hailing a medication called leucovorin for reducing some autism symptoms, but experts who research or treat autism almost uniformly agree the medication should be studied ...

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President Trump said pregnant women should "fight like hell" to avoid taking the drug, contrary to medical advice.

University of Utah President Taylor Randall has worked to provide "bridge funding" to keep the U.'s research going despite federal cuts. But there have still been some layoffs.

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"Trust in science is collapsing"—that's the alarm we often hear. It's not surprising, then, that recent years have seen major efforts to study the phenomenon and its dynamics in the general population ...

A Princeton nuclear physicist. A mechanical engineer who helped NASA explore manufacturing in space. A US National Institutes of Health neurobiologist. Celebrated mathematicians. And over half a dozen ...

Creating international viral biosafety guidelines are key to clearing up confusion, regaining trust and ensuring that essential research continues.

On 23 January 2020, reports became reality as the first COVID-19 case was detected in Australia. It was a grim foreshadowing of further disaster for a nation experiencing its most intense and ...