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The agreement, which is not yet ratified, would increase academic workers’ salaries, but some call for an ongoing strike as the raises are less than desired.

In the largest study of its kind, scientists find nearly 4,000 genetic variants that may predispose people to alcohol and tobacco use behaviors. 

The DNA fragments collected from permafrost in northern Greenland unlock insights into an ancient ecosystem.

Warm nasal cells mount stronger defenses against cold-causing coronaviruses and rhinoviruses than those exposed to cooler temperatures, an in vitro experiment finds.

The university’s board of trustees will oversee a probe after allegations of errors and manipulated images in four papers Marc Tessier-Lavigne coauthored. 

The parasite appears to make infected wolves less risk-averse, potentially influencing the behavior of packs.

A clinical trial finds that the anticoagulant apixaban, which has been prescribed to help COVID-19 patients recover, is ineffective and in rare instances dangerous.

Taylor, formerly of the University of Louisville, is known for his discovery of and research on tumor-secreted exosomes.  

At 33, Dal Co had already founded her own microbial ecology lab at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.

The mobility device interprets its paralyzed user’s thoughts to steer through cluttered spaces, a study reports.

Bats that experience food shortages due to climate change and habitat loss end up roosting in urban settings, where they shed more of the deadly Hendra virus. 

Judith Masters and Fabien Génin had both recently retired from the University of Fort Hare after celebrated careers researching lemurs and their kin.

Natural science research projects were among those promised funding by the now-collapsed crypto exchange’s “effective altruism” foundations.

Union-represented workers are walking out for an indefinite period of time after negotiations over their compensation and other issues stalled.

Study authors say the teeth, dated around 780,000 years old, push back the date humans are known to have engaged in cooking by more than 600,000 years. 

Thanks to continued weekly medications, a 16-month-old girl shows no symptoms of a severe genetic disease that typically kills children before they turn two.

Nine people with spinal injuries walked again after electrical stimulation, allowing researchers to pinpoint neurons likely underlying their recovery.

His work blended biology and the methods of theoretical physics to explain neural networks. 

More than 70,000 staff members from 150 universities are set to strike later this month, marking five consecutive years of academic protests in the country.