BioRender helps scientists draw biological diagrams more easily and communicate more efficiently. It's used by half a million ...

An international collaboration led by Cornell researchers used a combination of psilocybin and the rabies virus to map ...

The lawsuit seeks clarity around whether companies can exploit the earliest depiction of Mickey Mouse from a 1928 animated short. By Winston Cho Disney is continuing to enforce its intellectual ...

I n July, the National Institutes of Health announced that it would cap excessive article-processing charges (APCs) for publishing taxpayer-funded research. The NIH is exploring a handful of different ...

Virginia Gewin is a freelance reporter in Portland, Oregon. Amid a backdrop of massive cuts in US federal support for scientific research, a new effort — the Science Foundation — launched last week to ...

Aaron E. Carroll, a pediatrician, is president and CEO of AcademyHealth, a nonpartisan group that advances evidence-based health policy. The Trump administration’s 2025 budget proposed slashing the ...

In 2034, Superman and several other DC Comics characters will officially join the public domain. If a character is in the public domain, it means that they are no longer copyrighted and are free for ...

Each year on January 1, 95-year-old copyrights expire and a multitude of works enter the public domain, allowing them to be freely adapted and interpreted by anyone in the United States. Following ...

A handful of classic songs and musical arrangements are entering the Public Domain this year. This means their copyright either expired due to age or has not been renewed by the copyright owner. These ...

Despite widespread fears of skepticism, trust in scientists remains solid around the world. A massive post-pandemic survey found that people largely see scientists as capable, honest, and socially ...

It’s become an annual ritual: Every Jan. 1, more classic works of art or characters enter the public domain, and exploitation filmmakers with a tiny budget and a big taste for grisliness are scouring ...

With 2025 officially starting, a handful of iconic characters and works have entered the U.S. public domain. With the copyrights for these books expiring, the public can now use and adapt these works ...