As the US government slashes Harvard University’s funding, the damage to research at the school is becoming clearer. Nature ...

Dozens of scientists have descended on the US Great Plains to study hail, which can inflict damage on property and even take ...

Several academic and scientific conferences in the United States have been postponed, cancelled or moved elsewhere, as ...

Humans have a new way of seeing infrared light, without the need for clunky night-vision goggles. Researchers have made the ...

The study adds to evidence challenging the dominance of ‘natural selection’ as the sole adaptive force in evolution.

Neurons in a brain region linked with substance-use disorders can affect how much pain is felt when stopping chronic opioid ...

Mosquitoes exposed to the newly developed compounds show reduced malarial parasite growth even when infected four days later.

Kevin Liévano-Romero abandoned a veterinary career in Colombia to move to the United States, where he studies feared but ...

Ancient genomes reveal that a bacterial fever jumped from human-borne ticks to lice around the time wool textiles became ...

Samples from Hawaii seem to contain material that passed across the boundary between the planet’s core and its mantle, nearly ...

A spinning neutron star orbits the remnants of a once-massive companion it has stripped to its core.

Court documents and internal correspondence show the cost-cutting force has broad control over the world’s largest public ...