More than five years on, studies suggest the animal is the most likely culprit, but other candidates haven't been ruled out.

The overhaul of US science kicked off within hours of Trump’s inauguration on 20 January, when he signed dozens of executive ...

The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.

Objects that could strike the planet will be spotted more regularly as new asteroid-hunting telescopes come online.

A two-and-a-half-year-old girl shows no signs of a rare genetic disorder, after becoming the first person to be treated for ...

One-shot’ approach that uses machine learning to screen immune cells could help to detect conditions with overlapping ...

An artificial-intelligence network trained on a vast trove of sequence data is a step towards designing completely new ...

Satellite imagery helps to identify two hotspots of deforestation in the Atlantic Forest along Brazil’s eastern coast.

Drugs that can prevent or relieve migraine attacks are only effective for some people. Research is starting to untangle the ...

Update: After a court hearing on Friday, 21 February, US District Judge Angel Kelley extended her temporary order blocking the NIH from enacting a policy that would slash research-overhead costs ...

The virus is related to the pathogen that causes Middle East respiratory syndrome and capitalizes on the same ‘entry receptor ...

A Nature analysis of retractions hotspots around the world suggests institutions should pay close attention to retractions ...