China set to fetch first rocks from mysterious lunar far side.

Chang'e-6 to target Moon's largest and oldest impact crater.

Transgenic marmosets mimic Parkinson's symptoms.

New monkey models promise insight into early stages of degenerative brain disease.

Japan tries, again, to boost global ranking of its universities.

But researchers fear a plan to increase outside oversight of six top schools could create new problems.

Mysterious seismic swarm led up to Japan quake.

Researchers study connection of rising fluids and quake flurry to magnitude 7.5 monster.

Monarch butterfly is not endangered, new review finds.

IUCN shifts status to "vulnerable" after analysis challenged.

South Korea, a science spending champion, proposes cutbacks.

Sudden revamp would trim basic research spending while boosting biomedical innovation, space, and other fields.

China prepares to open new neutrino observatory.

Physicists hope to answer long-standing question about the relative masses of the three types of neutrinos.

Move to list monkey as endangered spurs dispute.

U.S. group challenges decision to reclassify macaque widely used in biomedical research.

The star watcher.

Amateur astronomer Koichi Itagaki is one of the most prolific supernova hunters of all time.

Australia's rock art threatened by development.

Petrochemical pollution is eroding world-famous Murujuga petroglyphs, scientists warn.

Gaps seen in China's crackdown on wildlife trade.

Stricter rules could prevent disease outbreaks, but allowances for fur farming spur concern.

China's research enterprise undergoes shake-up.

Revamp aims to respond to U.S. challenge and promote "self-reliance" in science.

China sets new ethics rules for human studies.

Revised regulations follow controversy over work that created genetically edited babies.

Japan moves to bolster its vaccine R&D sector.

Major funding effort aims to address weaknesses exposed by COVID-19 pandemic.

China is flying blind as the pandemic rages.

Official death tolls are impossibly low, and some worry new variants may escape detection.

Fukushima wastewater release set to start soon.

Japan, facing broad opposition, says dump will pose no risk to Pacific Ocean life or humans.

In China, 'zero COVID' has become a Catch-22.

Population chafes at control measures, but lifting them now would carry huge risks.

Breakdowns of the year.

What went wrong in the world of science.

The final puff.

Public health officials have drawn on a decade of research to craft a plan to make New Zealand smoke-free.

A cleaner way to mine clean-energy mainstays.

An electric field can reduce the need for polluting chemicals to extract rare earth elements.