Global agreement on a pandemic preparedness plan came against all the odds. Now all parties must follow good intentions with ...

Receiving a COVID-19 booster vaccine in the same arm as the first vaccine dose leads to a faster, more effective immune ...

The risk of developing blood cancer increases with age. The finding that a molecule from gut bacteria plays a part points to ...

Universities must be frank about barriers to equity, devise clear metrics for what they are trying to achieve and measure ...

Mechanism involving neurons that stimulate fear, and ones that suppress it, could help to explain conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder.

Fresh turmoil has hit the US National Science Foundation (NSF): hundreds more of the agency’s research grants were terminated ...

Unique reproducibility effort in Brazil focuses on common methods rather than a single field ― and prompts call for reform.

Research shows that, over the past two decades, rates of mental illness have been increasing in adolescents in many countries ...

Like the Star Wars planet, a distant world follows a path around two stars, both of them small, cool bodies called brown ...

The United States is known for the deep polarization between its two major political parties — the right-wing Republicans and left-wing Democrats. Now an analysis of hundreds of thousands of ...