Pharmaceuticals and vector-control programmes have greatly diminished the once-widespread disease, but sustained effort will ...

Even in fields in which women are well represented, they are up to 40% more likely than men to leave research within 20 years ...

Les produits pharmaceutiques et les programmes de lutte antivectorielle ont permis de faire reculer considérablement cette ...

Sensory organs on the walking legs of the male wasp spider can catch the scent of a female in a mood for romance.

Studies reveal how risky play can benefit child development. But encouraging it can be a challenge for parents.

In a few decades, gene-editing technologies could reduce the likelihood of common human diseases. Societies must use this ...

The holy grail of pandemic preparedness is being able to predict how a virus will evolve just by looking at its genetic ...

A century ago, physics had its Darwinian moment — a change in perspective that was as consequential for the physical sciences ...

Dust cloud is thought to be the first debris disk to be seen around a planetary nebula. The planetary nebula WeSb 1 ...

Theoretical study predicts the existence of particles that are neither bosons nor fermions — and hints at -applications in ...

Researchers have discovered that healthy skin — once thought to be a passive barrier — can actually produce antibodies that fight off infections. It’s hoped that the finding could one day lead to the ...

Two-dimensional materials are substances with a thickness of a few nanometres or less. Electrons in these materials are free to move in the two-dimensional plane, but their restricted motion in ...