Current measures to track emerging epidemics have a key limitation: they don’t work if the disease causes unusual or ...

From rodents to humans, tools that enable large-scale, single-cell neuronal recordings are exposing the inner workings of the ...

For much of human history, our species has treated Earth as an inexhaustible source of raw materials. In the past ...

Prostate cancer (PCa) represents a major health burden across Europe, and screening is already widely performed, predominantly through opportunistic PSA ...

Measles cases in the world’s children have been climbing since 2020, reversing a decades-long decline, according to a global ...

An account of how nineteenth-century studies aiming to find a biological basis for human races were dismantled by good ...

The nation plans to boost the number of doctoral candidates, but some early-career researchers warn of systemic challenges, ...

New evidence is helping researchers recover the lost histories of Africans buried on St Helena, nearly two centuries after ...

Scientists pay tribute to Marta Shahbazi Alonso and Tamara González Costa who died on their way to a developmental-biology meeting.

Women and people of colour are underrepresented in physics in many parts of the world, to the detriment of the field. How do academics’ beliefs about the role of ‘brilliance i ...

Start-up founders routinely talk about their failed companies. Academia could learn from them, says Mary Ryan.