Archaeological evidence makes a compelling case for Neanderthal-created fires 400,000 years ago in Suffolk, UK — plus, how ...

Analysis of more than 1 million people shows that mental-health disorders fall into five clusters, each of them linked to a ...

The project provides a baseline for tracking microbial-population shifts with land-use changes and global warming.

The past few years have seen no shortage of international dialogues, white papers and recommendations from advisory groups on the development and use of artificial intelligence. Yet when it has come ...

Lynne Peeples is a science journalist in Seattle, Washington. Near the end of his first series of chess matches against IBM’s Deep Blue computer in 1996, the Russian grandmaster Garry Kasparov ...

An ambitious book challenges long-held assumptions on diet and nutrition and exposes gaps in public-health guidance.

After a year of progress, scientists say they are on the cusp of turning AI-designed antibodies into potential therapies. In ...

In her World View, Beth Woods argues that a deal made with pharmaceutical giant Pfizer under US President Donald Trump’s ‘most-favoured nation’ scheme, which aims to make drug prescriptions more ...

In 2015, China and Argentina launched a collaborative project to build a 40-metre-diameter radio telescope in the San Juan province of Argentina. The China–Argentina Radio Telescope (CART) is now ...

Detectives often find important clues by digging through rubbish. That approach paid off tremendously for systems biologist Yifat Merbl. When she and her team investigated cellular recycling centres ...