More than five years on, studies suggest the animal is the most likely culprit, but other candidates haven't been ruled out.

Objects that could strike the planet will be spotted more regularly as new asteroid-hunting telescopes come online.

The overhaul of US science kicked off within hours of Trump’s inauguration on 20 January, when he signed dozens of executive ...

The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.

A two-and-a-half-year-old girl shows no signs of a rare genetic disorder, after becoming the first person to be treated for ...

Compounds called nickelates can conduct electricity without resistance well above absolute zero and at ambient pressure.

Drugs that can prevent or relieve migraine attacks are only effective for some people. Research is starting to untangle the ...

The US withdrawal will not officially happen until January 2026, so there will be months of uncertainty over budgets and ...

An artificial-intelligence network trained on a vast trove of sequence data is a step towards designing completely new ...

One-shot’ approach that uses machine learning to screen immune cells could help to detect conditions with overlapping ...

The virus is related to the pathogen that causes Middle East respiratory syndrome and capitalizes on the same ‘entry receptor ...

There are many large language models to choose from; some excel at coding, whereas others are better for synthesizing ...