Improvements in public health and medicine have lengthened human survival, but science has yet to overcome ageing.

The presidential election in the United States will have global ramifications. Do scientists around the world care who wins?

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to two geneticists who discovered microRNAs, a class of tiny RNA molecules that help to control how genes are expressed in multicellular ...

Nature talks to the mpox coordinator for Africa's public-health agency about how the continent will handle its first jabs ...

One woman and two men with severe autoimmune conditions have gone into remission after being treated with bioengineered and ...

A fast-warming region of Antarctica is getting greener with shocking speed. Satellite imagery of the region reveals that the ...

As development of the technology accelerates, countries are weighing the costs and benefits of how they regulate it.

ESA’s Hera mission will study a rock called Dimorphos, which was blasted by NASA, to work out how successful that approach ...

PhD students in Sweden accessed mental-health services at increasing rates as their studies went on. The pressure to collect ...

A similar vaccine, being developed at the University of Oxford, UK, was also named as a priority for testing during a Marburg ...

Pulses of light and sound seem to have beneficial effects. But some argue it is too soon to market experimental devices.

Pathogenic viruses and antibiotic-resistant bacteria thrive on plastic. The biohazard risks of this ‘plastisphere’ shouldn’t ...