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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Satellite imagery helps to identify two hotspots of deforestation in the Atlantic Forest along Brazil’s eastern coast.

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

The tech giant aims to make ‘topological’ quantum computers that will reach useful scales faster than competing technologies.

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 ...

A Nature analysis of retractions hotspots around the world suggests institutions should pay close attention to retractions ...