It’s been a month since Kári Stefánsson, the founder and former chief executive of the pioneering Icelandic genomics company ...

Kidney disease is an example of the damage that prolonged, incessant heat can do to the body, says Ollie Jay, a heat physiologist at the University of Sydney in Australia. For the epidemic of CKDu, ...

Group behind Retraction Watch aims to pinpoint the most influential flawed health data.

Live-animal markets are a natural laboratory for viruses to evolve and spark deadly outbreaks, yet scientists lack support to ...

Graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and science laboratory leaders are reeling after an announcement last week that ...

Delegates to a United Nations meeting on neurotechnology ethics have devised the first set of global guidelines on ...

Automated programs gathering training data for artificial-intelligence tools are overwhelming academic websites.

The erosion of trust in public institutions is a pressing problem for governments. It hinders their ability to respond to ...

A clinical trial using engineered immune cells to hunt cancer cells has reported impressive results for solid tumours, a type ...

Most proteins are left-handed, but scientists have found an ancient molecule that works in both mirror-image forms.

Manufacturing CAR T cells in the laboratory is expensive and time-consuming. An in vivo approach could get the powerful ...

Massive study of nearly 26 million research papers measures the consequences of striking out in another research area.