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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Looking out of the Fendouzhe submersible, more than nine kilometres below the ocean surface, Mengran Du knew she was seeing ...

The German government has committed half a billion euros for research on long COVID and other post-infection syndromes.

When Susan Monarez was sworn in to lead the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the country’s premier public ...