A type of immune cell circulating in the blood contributes to cognitive ageing, and blocking its effects can reverse the ...

A sweeping analysis of sleep duration and signs of ageing in half a million adults has pinpointed a sweet spot — about six to ...

It’s hard to imagine that a snail could kill a person, but a particularly venomous group of marine molluscs called cone ...

Antarctic ice contains evidence that Earth entered an interstellar dust cloud more than 40,000 years ago 1. As the Solar ...

An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in people exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus at home, according to trial results published today in the New England Journal of ...

Pregnancy poses many challenges, including protecting against infection and increased nutritional demands.

Death by paper cut. The consequences of unfettered antimicrobial resistance are as absurd as they are sinister. Harmful bacteria and other pathogens are rapidly developing countermeasures to the world ...

A Europe-wide collaboration has unveiled the longest continuous record of Earth’s climate and atmospheric conditions, ...

For most of modern history, economic growth has been tightly coupled with the use of fossil fuels. Cities now house more than ...

Trust is no longer enough: secure data sharing requires international collaboration across institutions and governments.

The US Forest Service has proposed closing some three-quarters of its research sites in a move that has provoked widespread ...