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

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

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

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

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

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

Researchers who study post-war reconstruction have told Nature that the recovery of public health, environment, higher ...

The global conservation community is debating whether to ban the release of genetically modified organisms into the wild.

A fresh revision of the mosquito family tree 1 suggests that the insects are 100 million years younger than previously ...

Hopes of securing a United Nations treaty on plastic pollution are fading after the final round of negotiations ended without ...