There will be little to celebrate on World Malaria Day on 25 April. Global malaria cases, which stood at 238 million in 2018, ...

Researchers are increasingly sounding the alarm that artificial intelligence could end humanity. But such doomsday warnings ...

Nuclear-weapons risks are back — and we need to act like it A test of reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in ...

Autonomous agents aren’t just creating their own research — on the Reddit-style website Agent4Science, they’re chatting about ...

Researchers filmed 10 species eating or scavenging bats at known Marburg-virus hotspot — and caught hundreds of humans ...

Three life-science prizes were awarded for advances in gene therapies. Opthalmologists Jean Bennett and Albert Maguire, and ...

Airborne genetic material can be used to paint a picture of ecosystem health, watch for invasive species and even identify ...

A congressional hearing covered the rise of paper mills and the costs of open-access publishing — but there was little ...

A team developing light-sensitive cancer drugs has won a US$2-million Quantum for Bio (Q4Bio) prize for demonstrating a ...

Efforts to boost tree cover and restore degraded land globally need stable funding and time to learn from failure.

Researchers found sex differences in the activity of genes within cortical neurons (pictured) and other brain cells. Credit: ...

Many Democrats making the switch to politics are motivated by the Trump administration’s cuts to science — whereas energy and ...