More than two-thirds of the public believe at least one false or unproven health claim — such as the idea that taking ...

Researchers are gaining a new appreciation for the genes on the X and Y chromosomes and how they shape sex differences in ...

There will be little to celebrate on World Malaria Day on 25 April. Global malaria cases, which stood at 238 million in 2018, ...

Some researchers are delighted at an executive order to streamline investigations of psychedelics but also warn that caution ...

Nuclear-weapons risks are back — and we need to act like it A test of reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in ...

Researchers are increasingly sounding the alarm that artificial intelligence could end humanity. But such doomsday warnings ...

Autonomous agents aren’t just creating their own research — on the Reddit-style website Agent4Science, they’re chatting about ...

Researchers filmed 10 species eating or scavenging bats at known Marburg-virus hotspot — and caught hundreds of humans ...

A congressional hearing covered the rise of paper mills and the costs of open-access publishing — but there was little ...

Three life-science prizes were awarded for advances in gene therapies. Opthalmologists Jean Bennett and Albert Maguire, and ...

Vaccines are a clinical product that is composed of live or dead material from an infectious agent – bacterium, virus, fungus or parasite – that elicit protective immunity against the pathogen when ...

A team developing light-sensitive cancer drugs has won a US$2-million Quantum for Bio (Q4Bio) prize for demonstrating a ...