Governments have voted to abolish the leap second immediately and replace it with a leap hour. Time discrepancies that used ...

Amid wars, AI doom and a super El Niño, good news can seem in short supply. But it is there if you go looking. In Nature’s ...

Orangutans are the most solitary of great apes, with mothers spending most of their lives solely with their infants. But a ...

Egyptologist Salima Ikram explains how human and animal mummies reveal ancient Egyptians’ diets, beliefs, environment and ...

Rising sea temperatures are stressing corals, causing the animals to expel the symbiotic algae that live in their tissues and ...

Pollution from transport across the Pacific Ocean is raising ozone levels above a region whose own emissions have dropped.

Artificial intelligence is starting to reshape how healthcare is delivered yet research over the past decade has largely ...

A year since the FDA announced the first Commissioner’s National Priority Vouchers (CNPVs), it has granted 22 of these vouchers. Ten CNPVs went to novel drug candidates (Table 1). Four of these agents ...

Metformin could reduce people’s risk of certain age-associated blood cancers, but more work is needed to identify who is ...

In a small study involving patients with blindness due to advanced retinitis pigmentosa, optogenetic therapy appears safe; early efficacy signals are promising and reveal opportunities for technical ...