Among the most famous demonstrations of genetic mutations driving infection outcome is severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID ...

Hijacking the energy-producing organelles from immune cells seems to help tumours in mice to infiltrate lymph nodes.

A gene that is important for human hearing could determine whether a dog’s ears are pendulous like a basset hound’s or stubby ...

Over the past half century, researchers have established that birds evolved from dinosaurs: specifically, the theropods, the ...

Studies aiming to maximize human creativity demonstrate that people work best when buoyed up by others who show them new ways ...

Bonds between same-sex individuals help apes and monkeys to manage conflict and strengthen alliances, especially in dry ...

In the aftermath of the United States military’s action to remove Nicolás Maduro, the president of Venezuela on 3 January, US ...

Artificial-intelligence systems are feeding on Wikipedia without giving back, and academic indifference is threatening the ...

Benchmarks reveal how artificial-intelligence systems reinforce discriminatory social hierarchies.

Ocean temperatures well below freezing in Earth’s deep-past glacial phases imply some very salty waters. At the height of a ...

A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples ...

Tadeo Ramirez-Parada studied the timing of plant flowering for his PhD — but he didn’t touch a single petal. Instead, he ...