Products pose 'serious public health concern,' agency said

North Carolina colleges are debating three-year degrees. In 2023, the legislature directed public high schools to create an accelerated path too.

UNC Health dropped the software Bidshift after a plan to make nurses bid against each other for extra shifts caused a social media firestorm.

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

Scientists have found a human gene lurking in a virus that causes skin infections. It may be using our own DNA to infect us.

Print out 3D-printed models of different animal brains for the classroom, lab — or just for fun.

CHAPEL HILL, NC—Praising it as the definitive treatment of the source material, literary scholars confirmed Monday that Prof.

Scientists have found a human gene lurking in a virus that causes skin infections. It may be using our own DNA to infect us.

Newly recovered sheeppox sequences reveal when and how the virus emerged

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

In mid-September, Fiji's government declared a national emergency because of a startling rise in HIV infections. The country's crystal meth epidemic is a strong contributing factor.

The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.

University officials are providing few details. They say the secrecy is necessary to build trust with future whistleblowers.

The celebrated coach’s football program at the University of North Carolina is under investigation. It’s hard to know what is of substance—and what is noise.

The two latest deaths suggest that the true number of infections is much larger than reported.

Class action lawsuit seeks to stop censorship and termination of federally funded scientific research

ALT: Man Lying on a Pile of Money

Schools like UNC-Chapel Hill major cuts to research funding, but the pipeline for new grants is shrinking. Researchers are left in limbo.

The Department of Biology at UNC Greensboro (UNCG) seeks an individual with a strong record of accomplishment in microbiology broadly defined for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assista...

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Yet plenty of others might be, thanks to evolution.

The major funder of basic science has not said how its new initiatives will be funded — but staff worry streamlined approach will further squeeze cash for core sciences.

The Kleiner Lab at North Carolina State University is seeking a Research Technician to support research focused on complex microbial communities, microbial symbioses, and metaproteomics. Reporting to ...

Alberta produces 40 percent of Canada’s honey. This year, rain and President Trump’s trade war have combined to threaten the industry.

As Dr. Anthony Fauci has faced public scrutiny from congressional Republicans, the D.O.J. has pursued a quieter and more expansive effort against a wider circle of researchers.

An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defence.

Study shows that the venerable device does not waft bacteria away from workbenches, as is often assumed.

For the first time in a year, the U.S.-Mexico border partly reopened to cattle imports following a screwworm infestation across the region. The battle against the flesh-eating fly has only just begun ...

Top artificial-intelligence models failed to predict the biological consequences of rewriting a virus's entire DNA code.

Questioning a state’s investigation is highly unusual for the public health agency, but reflects tensions between the Trump administration and many states over health issues.

The combined herbaria will create an unmatched archive for studying plant diversity in the southeastern United States (Chapel Hill, N.C.— Aug. 31, 2026) UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University will unite....

God save us from economists who think they can competently talk about biology

Even the most adept researchers may not know exactly what they do to get successful results. An A.I. model is trying to figure it out by watching every move.

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Science sleuth’s findings raise questions for researchers working to improve the reliability of commercial antibodies.

The standard university response to a new challenge takes years. AI is not waiting.

The country singer was an advocate for vaccines, public health, literacy and marginalized communities.

The Department of Microbiology & Immunology at Stanford University seeks applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level in the University Tenure Line. We seek ou...