Nidhi Subbaraman

Faculty members at the University of Tennessee Knoxville are demanding that nanotechnologist Anming Hu get his job back.

Eric Lander spoke to Nature during his first day as the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Authorities’ increased scrutiny of Chinese researchers’ background causes concern about unfair accusations.

Cocoa frogs, walking sharks among coolest species identified in 2013 - NBC News

Rhesus monkeys in a lab are using their brains to move two arms of a virtual primate on a screen, moving researchers one step closer towards outfitting paralyzed humans with with exoskeletons that move like biological limbs.This double-arm demonstration is a significant first: The two primate test s…

Newly discovered wasp named after evolution's other father - NBC News

Soldiers <3 robots: Military bots get awards, nicknames ... funerals - NBC News

Infants respond to the voices of their doting parents — but it’s not just human voices that hold them spellbound. In what may be a hallmark of our ancestry, human brains begin life hard-wired to hear the calls of non-human primates, an ability that fades away after just a few months. Past studies with infants have shown that deep cognitive wheels are set turning as they listen to human speech. Now researchers have found that sounds from the blue-eyed Madagascar lemur engage their attention, too…

Johan Santana of the New York Mets, the highest-paid pitcher in major league baseball, took home a salary of $23 million in 2012. Two million years before him, the very first human throwers probably also used their shoulders to bring home the bacon, flinging sharpened rocks or spears to hunt down game. Unlike our closest primate cousins, the chimpanzees, humans can throw fast. Highly trained pitchers and cricket bowlers can hurl balls at speeds up to 100 miles per hour. To figure out when our b…

Dawn of the bot? New era nears, experts say - NBC News