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Hiring decisions are rife with human bias, leading some organizations to hand off at least part of their employee searches to algorithms that screen applicants. But new research raises questions about those algorithms and the tech companies who develop them.

Professor Nikolaus Rajewsky is a visionary: He wants to understand exactly what happens in human cells during disease progression, with the goal of being able to recognize and treat the very first cellular changes.

An experimental HIV vaccine has reached an important milestone by eliciting antibodies that can neutralize a wide variety of HIV strains.

Researchers used a machine-learning approach to discover new ways of controlling the spatial organization of induced pluripotent stem cells.

Researchers have shown how a fly's neural compass uses visual cues to refine the insect's sense of orientation. Scientists can actually rewrite the insects' sense of direction by tinkering with this compass. And with just a few pieces of visual information, flies can build a new map of their surroundings.

For the colorful, graceful sea fans swaying among the coral reefs in the waters around Puerto Rico, the metal copper is an emerging threat in an era of warming oceans.

College life can be rigorous and exhausting, but new research suggests that just one extra hour of sleep a night (or even slightly less) is not only possible, but can also have significant health benefits for college students.

Researchers report that pollutant exposure varies with certain demographic factors. These findings could help communities, scientists and policymakers better understand and address air pollution exposures and their disparities.

Although eastern equine encephalitis, a mosquito-borne illness, has existed for centuries, 2019 has been a particularly deadly year for the disease in the US and strategies to address this threat are urgently required.

Photoinitiators, compounds used in the ink of many types of food packaging, have been found in human breast milk for the first time, although the levels consumed by breastfeeding infants are unlikely to be a health concern.