A ferocious surge of flu cases is linked in part to a variant that has not been dominant in the past few years — resulting in ...

A rare sample from a woolly rhinoceroses reveals how the population changed in the lead-up to the species’ extinction.

Symmetrical arrangements of botanical motifs indicate a grasp of spatial division long before the advent of formal written ...

Genes that protect the body against infection during youth can do harm in old age, according to a study 1 in mice. The ...

The outlook has brightened for federal science budgets, but political appointees are likely to have a big say in how that ...

Trust in science needs researchers, journals and institutions to correct the scientific record quickly and transparently when ...

Artificial intelligence use can boost outputs, at the cost of research breadth — plus, solving the mystery of the Universe’s ...

Hijacking the energy-producing organelles from immune cells seems to help tumours in mice to infiltrate lymph nodes.

Among the most famous demonstrations of genetic mutations driving infection outcome is severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID ...

A gene that is important for human hearing could determine whether a dog’s ears are pendulous like a basset hound’s or stubby ...

An analysis of more than one million people in the UK found that two-thirds of people who were vaccine-hesitant during the ...

Artificial-intelligence systems are feeding on Wikipedia without giving back, and academic indifference is threatening the ...