Twenty years of publishing data across many countries and disciplines show women are more likely than men to leave research.

In a deft experiment, biologists have recreated a system that could have birthed essential cell features such as mitochondria ...

As development of the technology accelerates, countries are weighing the costs and benefits of how they regulate it.

Pulses of light and sound seem to have beneficial effects. But some argue it is too soon to market experimental devices.

A similar vaccine, being developed at the University of Oxford, UK, was also named as a priority for testing during a Marburg ...

The number of new drugs approved each year increased steadily in the first few years of the analysis period, and more than 40 ...

Using creative approaches and next-generation tools, these researchers hope to shed light on long-standing mysteries in ...

Fieldwork can be deadly: heads of expeditions must be taught how to cope in a crisis.

Age impedes the ability of the brain’s stem cells to churn out new cells, but the study’s authors found that reducing the ...

The chatbot excels at science, beating PhDs on a hard science test. But it might ‘hallucinate’ more than its predecessors.

Daring flights in an old spy plane observe powerful gamma-ray flashes that could help explain the cause of lightning.

PhD students in Sweden accessed mental-health services at increasing rates as their studies went on. The pressure to collect ...