Physicians test new narcolepsy treatments by checking whether the drugs help people to fall asleep and stay asleep throughout ...

Letting powerful academics off the hook and punishing the people they bullied sends the message that abuse is acceptable in ...

QED Science says that its metrics reduce bias by assessing papers solely on the basis of their originality and validity.

Jaw-dropping patient videos and miraculous testimonials ignited a frenzy in China over a technique that aims to improve drainage from the brain. Now it is entering trials worldwide.

The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has begun turning away research grant applications for which the “primary function ...

Two very different methods are used to estimate the human toll of heatwaves such as those now hitting parts of Asia and ...

Scientists have predicted the existence of a particle made of gluons for a long time, but detecting it has taken decades.

Analysis of one million diverse genomes yields mutations associated with lower risk of diabetes, heart disease and other ...

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), the country’s main funding agency, announced on 27 July that in 2028 it would cut all of ...

Moderna’s newly approved vaccine could allow manufacturers to respond more rapidly to changing influenza strains.

The Amazon rainforest might be closer to a tipping point than scientists thought. Some fear that droughts and fire could nudge it into irreversible decline.

An analysis tool developed by Climate Central shows that human-caused climate change made the high temperatures in many parts of the ocean dozens of times more likely. “Basically, everywhere on Earth, ...