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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Nerve-cell ‘highways’ identified in mice suggest that stress pushes the brain towards rigid habit and away from thoughtful ...