Funders launch projects with US$70-million to develop tools that make rapid syntheses of the world’s science. Education is ...

“It’s one of the most important data sets on the early pandemic and on the origin of SARS-CoV-2,” says Florence Débarre, an ...

Three scientists are honoured for developing a class of blockbuster weight-loss drugs. Is a Nobel prize on the way?

On average, the reviewers scored the AI-generated ideas as more original and exciting than those written by human ...

A mechanism for metabolic disease is traced to a defective cellular scaffolding that holds together the brain’s hunger cells.

Soft cells’ — shapes with rounded corners and pointed tips that fit together on a plane — feature in onions, molluscs and ...

The severe disease of the face has finally been recognized as a neglected tropical disease. A heightened focus could help to ...

The world might be witnessing the bending of a key climate curve. Various projections have suggested that carbon emissions ...

Thelwall believes there’s more that AI could do in helping peer reviewers to evaluate research quality, but there is reason ...

Mysterious US bird flu case in person without any known contact with an infected animal raises spectre of human-to-human ...