I would never do that, as a scientist,” Susan Monarez says of being asked to approve changes to vaccine recommendations ...

Space scientists look back on 30 years of exoplanet discoveries — from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with perfectly synchronized orbits. It was also the start of a whirlwind of discovery.

Beyond primatology, Goodall’s legacy is the generations of women she inspired to follow in her footsteps into fieldwork, says ...

The age at which a person is diagnosed with autism can be partly explained by genetic factors.

Little is known about the early history of lizards, snakes and their kin. New fossil discoveries reveal a complex ...

Shutdowns “can have a significant impact on the scientific research enterprise, and a lot of that does depend on how long a ...

The obsession with economic output as a measure of human development puts sustainability on the back burner. Researchers can ...

Thousands of previously undescribed protein–metabolite interactions have been mapped by analysing outbred mice.

A tool called Funding the Frontier visualizes all the downstream impacts of funding — and predicts which studies will have the biggest societal impact.

Bacteria insert proteins into their outer membrane using a highly conserved apparatus known as the β-barrel assembly machinery (BAM). A large group of bacteria with particularly complex outer-membrane ...

Some bacterial-infecting viruses use ‘sponges’ to mop up defence molecules, but bacteria can fight back by responding when a ...

Outlining the trial-and-error processes that are involved in every research project could help others to become more ...