A combination of body and organ-function metrics does better at classifying obesity than does body mass index.

Technology is making biological studies more powerful than ever. But people are the real force behind discovery.

Analysis reveals these plants face severe habitat loss across the Americas — plus, researchers test a new way to diagnose ...

A map of the movements of Brazilian wildlife and their exposure to human activities can inform protection initiatives.

One of Saturn’s rings consists of a diverse population of icy and rocky grains, each with a distinct composition. How this came about might now have an explanation.

The brain relies on crucial proteins to maintain neurons. This system is disrupted in mice with neurological disease.

Picture produced by fresh analysis of the data that yielded the first-ever image of a black hole outputs the same, ring-like ...

A fresh approach considers waist circumference, rather than just weight and height, providing a more accurate classification.

Network science has inspired the design of materials that spread out their deformation when a force is applied, have tunable ...

Zircon crystals found in some of Earth’s oldest rocks suggest that the source rock was once buried about 50 kilometres into ...

Nuclear pores control molecular traffic into and out of the cell nucleus. Measurements in living cells, together with ...

Projections that include severe drought predict that a majority of the 993 cactus species assessed will see large losses of ...