Hundreds of people at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have received layoff notices, and work at many ...

Japan’s health authorities have declared an influenza epidemic, with thousands of people infected with the respiratory virus.

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

At the event known as Agents4Science 2025, to be held online on 22 October, the attendees will still be humans. It will ...

Nobody should be going hungry in the twenty-first century. Scientists must determine the reasons why malnutrition is ...

Reionization is thought to have been driven by ultraviolet light produced by both early stars and active galactic nuclei ...

CRISPR-based tools can’t easily access the DNA in these organelles, but researchers are finding other ways in.

Innovation is key to meeting today’s global challenges. This is why the University of Botswana, originally a teaching ...

Previous research investigating sex differences in brain ageing has shown mixed results, Ravndal adds. Several studies have ...

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt share economics prize for work that underlines the importance of investing in ...

A surge in global temperatures has caused widespread bleaching and death of warm-water corals around the world.

The findings suggest that Andean people kept hunting and gathering for thousands of years after farming and pastoralism began ...