Ornithologist Ana Gonzalez studies migration patterns and works with local scientists to protect threatened birds.

Viruses known as bacteriophages are difficult to study, but they are beginning to give up their secrets. It is common ...

Immune cells rush to the brain and promote deep sleep after a heart attack, according to a new study 1 involving both mice ...

For the first time, chemists have made a class of molecules previously thought too unstable to exist, and used them to ...

My work gathers inspiration from a variety of unconventional model organisms, and they have a key role in bio-inspired design ...

Nobel prizewinner Alain Aspect’s ‘crackpot’ studies of quantum entanglement have explored the tricks reality plays on us — ...

Anti-immigration parties are pushing policies that are hostile or indifferent towards science.

Another recent policy change is an extension to the Distinguished Young Scholars (DYS) programme, which gives outstanding ...

The annual toxic smog that forms over swathes of India and Pakistan is preventable, but the nations’ scientists have too ...

John Hopfield, one of this year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics, is a true polymath. His career started with probing ...

Partnerships between developers and researchers could help to improve the quality of educational apps and other technologies.

DNA samples from one of the world’s largest and oldest plants — a quaking aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) in Utah called ...