Microorganisms on a sample of asteroid are clearly terrestrial — despite strict protocols to avoid contamination.

Six years of observations show that play encourages group efforts and eases tension between adult chimpanzees.

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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