At the event known as Agents4Science 2025, to be held online on 22 October, the attendees will still be humans. It will ...

Reionization is thought to have been driven by ultraviolet light produced by both early stars and active galactic nuclei ...

Nobody should be going hungry in the twenty-first century. Scientists must determine the reasons why malnutrition is ...

Japan’s health authorities have declared an influenza epidemic, with thousands of people infected with the respiratory virus.

Architects and microbiologists are exploring whether making buildings hospitable to friendly microorganisms can improve human ...

CRISPR-based tools can’t easily access the DNA in these organelles, but researchers are finding other ways in.

Innovation is key to meeting today’s global challenges. This is why the University of Botswana, originally a teaching ...

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt share economics prize for work that underlines the importance of investing in ...

Previous research investigating sex differences in brain ageing has shown mixed results, Ravndal adds. Several studies have ...

A surge in global temperatures has caused widespread bleaching and death of warm-water corals around the world.

The naked mole rat ( Heterocephalus glaber ), native to the Horn of Africa and parts of Kenya, has drawn attention from ...

The findings suggest that Andean people kept hunting and gathering for thousands of years after farming and pastoralism began ...