On health economist Jay Bhattacharya ’s first day as head of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), the chiefs of four ...

More than 200 federal grants for research related to HIV and AIDS have been abruptly terminated in the past few weeks.

CERN’s ambition to build an accelerator three times as large as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) took a significant step ...

El Niños develop every few years and can cause heavy rains, droughts and other hazards. Most El Niños last for a year, but ...

Europe is advertising itself as a destination for embattled US scientists. It seems many are considering leaving.

The magnitude-7.7 earthquake that hit Myanmar on 28 March has killed at least 2,700 people, with the final death toll ...

Regulatory efforts to purge PFASs from drinking water have led to a rush for technologies that can capture and destroy the chemicals.

As governments fight to regulate access to materials important for many technologies, the people mining them are left behind.

The European Union’s new research chief Ekaterina Zaharieva speaks to Nature about attracting disaffected US scientists and cutting grant bureaucracy.

Following the firm’s bankruptcy, researchers hope that they will be able to continue accessing the valuable data set even if ...

A brain-reading implant that translates neural signals into audible speech has allowed a woman with paralysis to hear what ...

IF we assume that the X-ray scattering of the ‘unmodified’ type observed by Prof. Compton corresponds to the normal or average state of the atoms and molecules, while the ‘modified ...