Experiments suggests H9N2 has adapted to human cells but cases of person-to-person transmission haven’t been reported yet.

When students entered Tsinghua University in Beijing this year, one of the first representatives they met wasn’t a person.

Remains of some of the 300,000 soldiers who died on the retreat from Moscow reveal two bacterial diseases that probably added ...

A theoretical study suggests that gravity could have quantum effects without itself being a quantum theory. Other researchers ...

The approach, published on 23 October in Science, builds on a trend that is sweeping the field of drug discovery: the use of ...

Beijing wants to double down on advanced semiconductor technologies, artificial intelligence and basic research.

The rare samples, uncovered by China’s Chang’e-6 mission, might help to reveal secrets of how the Solar System evolved.

Nature asked researchers who use artificial intelligence how its propensity for people-pleasing affects their work — and what ...

Florida’s primary reef-building corals have been declared ‘functionally extinct’ — prompting a shift in conservation ...

RNA vaccines seem to boost the effectiveness of an immune therapy for skin and lung cancer ― in an unexpected way.

Over millennia, people have selectively bred the sugarcane plant to optimize the crop’s taste, yield and ease of cultivation.

Architects and microbiologists are exploring whether making buildings hospitable to friendly microorganisms can improve human ...