Epidemiological studies have linked dirty air to dementia and other brain disorders. Now researchers are trying to determine ...

The technology firm OpenAI made headlines last month when its latest experimental chatbot model, o3, achieved a high score on ...

Most researchers whose papers are retracted owing to an honest mistake find the ordeal stressful, according to a survey of ...

Nature’s survey of hiring in science has revealed a gulf between the expectations of people looking for jobs in science and ...

In November 2024, the Australian government passed a world-first law, banning children under the age of 16 from using social-media platforms — it will be enacted by the end of the year. As an expert ...

Since then, Wobble Genomics, Kuo’s spin-off from the University of Edinburgh, UK, has grown from 2 to 16 employees, and in ...

The threshold has been exceeded for only one year so far, but humanity is nearing the end of what many thought was a ‘safe ...

The Nobel prizewinner worked tirelessly with wife Rosalynn Carter to eradicate Guinea-worm disease.

Model microbes such as Escherichia coli hog scientists’ attention, leaving most known bacteria with few publications devoted ...

Blood vessels in the brain rhythmically constrict and dilate to drive waves of cleansing fluid through the organ.

Meta’s planned shift away from third party fact-checking in favour of a crowdsourced approach has perplexed those who study ...