The Trump administration plans the departure for the end of 2026 and criticizes the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

The journal Science retracts a headline-grabbing study, but the authors vigorously defend their data and say the retraction ...

Now the Spanish government has pitched to bring the giant facility to La Palma, in Spain’s Canary Islands — and backed up the effort with a pledge to contribute €400 million (US$470 million).

An artificial intelligence (AI) model can predict where ancient Latin texts come from, estimate how old they are and restore ...

Scientists and regulators are divided over the threat posed by rising levels of a chemical called TFA.

Heating that lasted only trillionths of a second raised a gold sample’s temperature to 19,000 K without melting it, a study ...

Mice with a version of osteoarthritis experienced symptom relief after expression of a protein targeting a stem-cell receptor ...

Study of nearly 1,000 people showed that brain ageing was not linked to infection status, but cognitive decline was.

When they analysed patterns of brain activity in the MPFC, the researchers found that optimistic people seemed to have ...

With US investment in polar science under threat, scientists hope that China’s interest in the region will benefit research.

The Langlands programme has inspired and befuddled mathematicians for more than 50 years. A major advance has now opened up ...

Gavi, the vaccine provider for the world’s poorest people, needs an extra US$3 billion to protect infants and other ...