Armed with an influx of cash and public enthusiasm, researchers are looking to improve how ageing is measured.

Both are stalled at the US National Science Foundation, an agency facing the prospect of large budget cuts. She can’t do the ...

B. syrtos, which boasted razor-sharp teeth and a powerful jaw, belonged to an extinct group of meat-eating mammals called ...

Lack of screening and limited treatment options mean that low- and middle-income countries face higher death rates despite ...

Drugs that can prevent or relieve migraine attacks are only effective for some people. Research is starting to untangle the ...

The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.

More than five years on, studies suggest the animal is the most likely culprit, but other candidates haven't been ruled out.

A two-and-a-half-year-old girl shows no signs of a rare genetic disorder, after becoming the first person to be treated for ...

One-shot’ approach that uses machine learning to screen immune cells could help to detect conditions with overlapping ...

An artificial-intelligence network trained on a vast trove of sequence data is a step towards designing completely new ...

A Nature analysis of retractions hotspots around the world suggests institutions should pay close attention to retractions ...

The virus is related to the pathogen that causes Middle East respiratory syndrome and capitalizes on the same ‘entry receptor ...