A strain of avian influenza is showing signs of adaptation to human hosts, but there is no evidence that it can transmit from ...

Bites from insects infected with modified malaria parasites boosted immunity and stopped people from contracting the disease.

Every year, people in central and southern Africa light fires to clear cropland, generating smoke particles that travel ...

The Human Cell Atlas is yielding detailed maps of human tissues and systems throughout life, along with methods to handle ...

Climate change has driven hurricane wind speeds up by an average of nearly 30 kilometres per hour, an analysis of Atlantic ...

Coming less than a decade after its launch, the studies emerging from the global project are a major achievement. Funders ...

Survey highlights disparity between academic and industry scientists’ access to computing power needed to train ...

Analysis of nearly 2,000 people living in remote villages in Honduras reveals who’s spreading gut microorganisms to whom.

The University of Rochester has confirmed that it no longer employs Ranga Dias, who was found by investigators to have ...

A levitating frog, a necrophiliac duck, taxi drivers’ brains — the Ig Nobel prizes have shined a spotlight on offbeat work.

As soil dries, plants limit water loss by closing tiny apertures called stomata in their leaves. A global analysis reveals ...

The ingestible device shoots out tiny jets of drugs to deliver them to the GI tract of pigs and dogs — plus how light-powered ...