Clues are emerging about the ghostly clan that settled eastern Asia and left a genetic legacy in people today.

As bird flu sweeps across US poultry and cattle farms, researchers are racing to find ways to contain the outbreaks before ...

Richard Garwin was a particle physicist and inventor with a lifelong mission to nudge the US government towards rational, ...

Survey respondents at all career stages report colleagues engaging in territorial and possessive behaviours — but ...

A pair of telescopes picking up reflected light achieve a performance 14 times better than a single telescope can manage ...

The UN Ocean Conference promises to be a rare event at which most of the key players are in the same location and free of the ...

Collaborations between privately run foundations provide an opportunity to fund risky science that governments cannot take on ...

As it awaits a court ruling, the US National Science Foundation has paused its attempt to cap indirect-cost payments on ...

The humpback whale has the whale equivalent of nearsightedness, which puts it at risk of being snarled in fishing gear.

The only gene-editing therapy currently on the market is a CRISPR–Cas9-based treatment for two blood disorders, sickle-cell ...

The mass cancellation of US federal grants marks yet another escalation in political interference in science, but there are ...

A new machine-learning tool can predict which individuals are at high risk for developing postpartum depression, an ...