David Posner hopes that his teaching and outreach programmes could apply to other low- and middle-income countries.

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Microorganisms on a sample of asteroid are clearly terrestrial — despite strict protocols to avoid contamination.

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

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

African researchers piloted a slew of innovative, low-cost programmes for addressing the troubling shortage of mental-health ...

Since a schizophrenia drug, the first in decades with an innovative mechanism of action, gained US regulatory approval in ...

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

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