Live-animal markets are a natural laboratory for viruses to evolve and spark deadly outbreaks, yet scientists lack support to ...

Delegates to a United Nations meeting on neurotechnology ethics have devised the first set of global guidelines on ...

The erosion of trust in public institutions is a pressing problem for governments. It hinders their ability to respond to ...

Automated programs gathering training data for artificial-intelligence tools are overwhelming academic websites.

A clinical trial using engineered immune cells to hunt cancer cells has reported impressive results for solid tumours, a type ...

Manufacturing CAR T cells in the laboratory is expensive and time-consuming. An in vivo approach could get the powerful ...

Photographer Petr Horálek observed both a lunar eclipse and a galaxy of stars from the the US National Science Foundation’s ...

Shuttle-based therapies are under active development for an array of brain conditions. “It’s now abundantly clear that we can ...

The COVID-19 pandemic showed the value of changing direction in research. It should be incentivized, encouraged and ...

US agency’s new policy could abruptly end studies of infectious diseases and cancer, leaving researchers scrambling for funds ...

The body’s pathogen fighters can act as surveillance forces that ferry information from the gut and fat deposits to the brain ...

Hundreds of activists, some wearing gas masks, took to the streets to denounce the government for slashing science funding.