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

Geochemical clues hint that worm-like creatures in the Ediacaran period benefited from symbiosis with bacteria.

The long-standing ‘gallium anomaly’ concerning neutrinos could have been a misunderstanding all along.

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch shortly, could find 40 times the number of distant worlds as have ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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