The genomes of two women who lived 7,000 years ago in the Sahara when it was a green savannah reveal a remarkably isolated ...

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Researchers are debating the strength of evidence connecting technology to surging rates of adolescent mental illness. But ...

The fierce debate about smartphones and adolescent mental health rests on conflicting science. Researchers and technology ...

A single dose of the drug nitisinone could render a person’s blood lethal to mosquitoes for five days, modelling suggests.

On health economist Jay Bhattacharya ’s first day as head of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), the chiefs of four ...

The magnitude-7.7 earthquake that hit Myanmar on 28 March has killed at least 2,700 people, with the final death toll ...

CERN’s ambition to build an accelerator three times as large as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) took a significant step ...

More than 200 federal grants for research related to HIV and AIDS have been abruptly terminated in the past few weeks.

Europe is advertising itself as a destination for embattled US scientists. It seems many are considering leaving.

Following the firm’s bankruptcy, researchers hope that they will be able to continue accessing the valuable data set even if ...

As governments fight to regulate access to materials important for many technologies, the people mining them are left behind.