Since a schizophrenia drug, the first in decades with an innovative mechanism of action, gained US regulatory approval in ...

A strain of avian influenza is showing signs of adaptation to human hosts, but there is no evidence that it can transmit from ...

Survey highlights disparity between academic and industry scientists’ access to computing power needed to train ...

Bites from insects infected with modified malaria parasites boosted immunity and stopped people from contracting the disease.

Analysis of nearly 2,000 people living in remote villages in Honduras reveals who’s spreading gut microorganisms to whom.

Coming less than a decade after its launch, the studies emerging from the global project are a major achievement. Funders ...

Every year, people in central and southern Africa light fires to clear cropland, generating smoke particles that travel ...

As soil dries, plants limit water loss by closing tiny apertures called stomata in their leaves. A global analysis reveals ...

The Human Cell Atlas is yielding detailed maps of human tissues and systems throughout life, along with methods to handle ...

Climate change has driven hurricane wind speeds up by an average of nearly 30 kilometres per hour, an analysis of Atlantic ...

African researchers piloted a slew of innovative, low-cost programmes for addressing the troubling shortage of mental-health ...

The University of Rochester has confirmed that it no longer employs Ranga Dias, who was found by investigators to have ...