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Symptoms and organ damage abated in young children and teenagers whose conditions had resisted other treatments.

Another complication is how social-media use is evaluated: many studies look only at total amount of time spent on the ...

The work reveals that the brain — in mice and, presumably, in humans — is actively involved in the development of endurance, the ability to get better at a physical activity with repeated practice, ...

Overturning the 2009 decision will lead to billions of extra tonnes of greenhouse-gas emissions over the next three decades.

In the early 1960s, after studies confirmed that it was linked to congenital disorders in more than 10,000 children, ...

Large proportion worked at Columbia University, which had its grants cut and frozen by the administration of US President ...

China’s science ministry will crack down on universities that fail to investigate or sanction researchers who are involved in ...

But funding proposals to US agencies also tend to be more similar to previously funded projects if they are written or edited ...

Geopolitical trends might be heading in the wrong direction, but economic forces are aligning around a future economy centred ...

This moment of revelation is common to many people who don’t form mental images. They report that they might never have ...

A parasitic wasp castrates its moth larvae hosts by injecting them with a ‘domesticated’ virus that causes cells in the larvae’s testes to die. Now, scientists know exactly how the virus does its ...