As the US government slashes Harvard University’s funding, the damage to research at the school is becoming clearer. Nature ...

The US government is shutting down a state-of-the-art facility that has provided data to inform health and environment ...

Dozens of scientists have descended on the US Great Plains to study hail, which can inflict damage on property and even take ...

The study adds to evidence challenging the dominance of ‘natural selection’ as the sole adaptive force in evolution.

Several academic and scientific conferences in the United States have been postponed, cancelled or moved elsewhere, as ...

Humans have a new way of seeing infrared light, without the need for clunky night-vision goggles. Researchers have made the ...

Neurons in a brain region linked with substance-use disorders can affect how much pain is felt when stopping chronic opioid ...

Researchers are arguing over whether ‘disruptive’ or ‘novel’ science is waning – and how to remedy the problem.

A spinning neutron star orbits the remnants of a once-massive companion it has stripped to its core.

Kevin Liévano-Romero abandoned a veterinary career in Colombia to move to the United States, where he studies feared but ...

Ancient genomes reveal that a bacterial fever jumped from human-borne ticks to lice around the time wool textiles became ...

A pair of telescopes picking up reflected light achieve a performance 14 times better than a single telescope can manage ...