The technology can whip up spurious findings and pollute survey responses, but it could also make research more rigorous.

New-found immune cells called ‘ruptoblasts’ explode when triggered, ejecting toxic chemicals capable of delivering death to surrounding cells in just minutes. The cells’ discoverers say that this ...

A 53-year-old clinically dead man has become the first person to receive two kidneys and a whole liver from a genetically ...

Bad experiences with supervisors are common among early-career researchers and one of the leading reasons they leave academia, a survey of more than 2,600 researchers has found 1. The study, which was ...

Treatments aim to bulk up failing hearts to restore their vigour – but can the field move on from past controversy?

Public-health researcher James Baguma has studied the interactions between bats, which can carry the virus, and people in the ...

Anaesthetics are now part of every operating room, but physicians have been trying to reduce pain from surgery for centuries. Chemical traces on fifteenth-century surgical tools suggest that topical ...

The size of the outbreak in its initial days is worrying researchers. The next few weeks will determine how large it grows, ...