Kidney disease is an example of the damage that prolonged, incessant heat can do to the body, says Ollie Jay, a heat ...

Group behind Retraction Watch aims to pinpoint the most influential flawed health data.

It’s been a month since Kári Stefánsson, the founder and former chief executive of the pioneering Icelandic genomics company ...

Live-animal markets are a natural laboratory for viruses to evolve and spark deadly outbreaks, yet scientists lack support to ...

Graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and science laboratory leaders are reeling after an announcement last week that ...

Delegates to a United Nations meeting on neurotechnology ethics have devised the first set of global guidelines on ...

Automated programs gathering training data for artificial-intelligence tools are overwhelming academic websites.

A clinical trial using engineered immune cells to hunt cancer cells has reported impressive results for solid tumours, a type ...

The erosion of trust in public institutions is a pressing problem for governments. It hinders their ability to respond to ...

Most proteins are left-handed, but scientists have found an ancient molecule that works in both mirror-image forms.

Photographer Petr Horálek observed both a lunar eclipse and a galaxy of stars from the the US National Science Foundation’s ...

US agency’s new policy could abruptly end studies of infectious diseases and cancer, leaving researchers scrambling for funds ...