Negotiators from around the world are gathering in Ottawa this week to try to hash out the text for a new international ...

Severe influenza A virus (IAV) infections cause 650,000 deaths annually and available antiviral treatments show limited ...

Family tree of ‘octocorals’ pushes origin of bioluminescence back to 540 million years ago, when the first animal species ...

“Sun, sand and sea.” Those are the three ingredients for tourism in the Maldives, Mohamed Shaiz’s father told him. For more than a decade, Shaiz’s family owned a successful local hotel in Addu, the ...

Scientists initially thought that the outsized teeth were fangs, giving rise to the ‘sabre-toothed salmon’ nickname.

The best timepieces tend to be fragile, but a device based on iodine threads the needle between precision and practicality.

Journals, funders and institutions that employ researchers all want to produce or disseminate rigorous scientific knowledge — ...

Scientists sampled genomic data from 279 graves at a cemetery in Rákóczifalva, Hungary, where people of the medieval Avar ...

When the researchers injected the cancerous cells into mice, the tumours looked similar to those seen in human colorectal ...

The World Health Organization was criticised for being too slow to classify COVID-19 as airborne. Will the new terminology ...

Autonomous weapons guided by artificial intelligence are already in use. Researchers, legal experts and ethicists are ...

Nature’s annual photography competition attracted stunning images from around the world, including two very different shots ...