Researchers captured networks of neurons lighting up in a small aquatic animal, facial recognition software can flag genetic conditions, and a Muppet with autism makes her debut on “Sesame Street.”

Parents in the United States tend to rate their children’s autism features as more severe than do parents in four other countries.

Michigan’s experience demonstrates a way for governments to increase immunization rates without having to address religious or philosophical opposition to vaccines.

Critics say vulnerable patients are being manipulated and the goals promoted are skewed by the pharma benefactors who want faster government approval for new products.

Cell Press announces its new preprint server, Donald Trump has yet to name a science advisor, and new gene-editing tools are calling an old finding into question.

More than 1,500 people were forced to abandon labs and offices at the University of Oxford after a routine renovation revealed asbestos in a building.

In his new book, journalist Richard Harris writes that lack of reproducibility in research poses a serious threat to science.

Nine U.S. senators are pushing the U.S. Attorney General to reveal what he knows about a reported investigation into Tom Price’s stock trades that a top federal prosecutor might have begun before being fired by the Trump administration.

Scientists in the United Kingdom react to the reality of Brexit, a U.S. Supreme Court nominee apologizes for ruling against the family of a boy with autism, and a Rett syndrome researcher is racking up awards.

Young adults with autism face many new expectations and challenges — with none of the support that is available during high school.