Global warming is making high-altitude regions unstable, and could trigger more frequent landslides and floods.

Legendary country musician Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80 after “a brief battle with cancer”, her representatives ...

Scientists and publishers are testing a new breed of software that promises impressive accuracy at spotting AI-written text.

The plan to force some scientists to register with a professional body could protect people and the environment, but the ...

Researchers have created contracting muscle implants that can mimic some of the benefits of exercise, including improving muscle mass, strength and bone density while also slowing age-related muscle ...

Science sleuth’s findings raise questions for researchers working to improve the reliability of commercial antibodies.

Some male hormones could help nerve cells in the lungs to suppress asthma attacks. Asthma is a respiratory illness caused by ...

Injection of a person’s own mitochondria into the retina was safe but had only a temporary effect on restoring vision.

Health-care partnerships can provide other nations with cheap diagnostics, medicines and more — but global institutions ...

The brains of people with depression seem to be worse at producing new neurons than are those of people without the disorder.

Models of how the brain changes over time could help researchers to understand how diseases affect the organ later in life.

A personalized mRNA vaccine for melanoma reduced the risk of the cancer returning in a phase III clinical trial, the ...