Although scientists have long been able to gather DNA from water and soil, it's only recently that they've started to see the ...

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

Digital distractions are vying for people’s focus, but our underlying capacity to pay attention seems to be undiminished.

Virologist Jay Hooper is developing a vaccine for the rare rodent virus behind an outbreak on a cruise ship. An outbreak of ...

In one of the highest-profile battles yet between the US research community and the administration of President Donald Trump, ...

The Make America Healthy Again movement asserts that over-prescription of drugs for mental-health conditions is rife in the ...

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

The group of rodent viruses can cause disease in humans, but cases are rare.

Proposed UN progress indicators include greenhouse gas emissions, life expectancy and children's performance in reading and ...

Analysis of papers from millions of scientists shows that older researchers tend to stick with ideas from their past.